Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76531 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40201 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2014 01:06:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 2014 01:06:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=morrison.levi@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=morrison.levi@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.218.46 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: morrison.levi@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.218.46 mail-oi0-f46.google.com Received: from [209.85.218.46] ([209.85.218.46:40160] helo=mail-oi0-f46.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6C/DF-40673-C0D5DE35 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:06:21 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f46.google.com with SMTP id i138so1278327oig.5 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:06:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=p5QI58mPwMqc6zHP5VeY06IlmOe5Yq7qilsqVY85M+4=; b=DrAq1Txg8Kp+hY/zOh/o41CoMFoW3jXIbAhPIuZb3hIW5sGol1m0Vo70hpzXeL9Zjh bi5q/q1IUaArklRDEa84uSFObu2UFM8PeaHYO+WF3QM2kHOuCJ82ps6zq6fZJ4xGMCh2 +mNo1diNIpndrAhaxMRifgVayOp2Ecjlfg+ePD2heARBA4zEWcDWEfWw0uNku0ME1CeI 6RzlbI0jqsGnjFLNXmnYLhctDQvlGCvwH2GUlkzouFXE+q+AoBIg8Wv4eEQ29Vc8gu4k HKirdqURTbKGOqf9QzdDOMEamLRZhwgfiHhahU7zdL253yzulnTv+q+uh9LambtOtYVZ O10Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.121.67 with SMTP id li3mr16984378oeb.17.1408064776733; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Sender: morrison.levi@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.157.231 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:06:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5C97D818-4616-440D-9C0D-B9F9C8D034DC@ajf.me> References: <5C97D818-4616-440D-9C0D-B9F9C8D034DC@ajf.me> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:06:16 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mWRmiFiHw7EeAAljfDLeKj4tUq0 Message-ID: To: Andrea Faulds Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison) > As PHP 7 may break backwards-compatibility, 5.7 gives us a chance to add deprecation warnings and such to help people prepare for 7. The updated multiple default blocks in a switch statement proposes exactly this. Even if PHP 5.7 doesn't have any features I think it would make the transition to PHP 7 easier.