Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76532 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41671 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2014 01:10:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 2014 01:10:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.245 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.245 imap11-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [198.187.29.245] ([198.187.29.245:40724] helo=imap11-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D2/30-40673-1FD5DE35 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:10:09 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2998800E7; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:10:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap11.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap11.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id exV3c0hGW6bn; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:10:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (05439dda.skybroadband.com [5.67.157.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 202DA8800DA; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:10:04 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:10:02 +0100 Cc: PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <5CF2994A-6C8E-4E30-B5EF-CFE29D809EAE@ajf.me> References: <5C97D818-4616-440D-9C0D-B9F9C8D034DC@ajf.me> To: Levi Morrison X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 15 Aug 2014, at 02:06, Levi Morrison wrote: >> 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. >=20 > 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. Right. The specification is a general motivation for 5.7 for me, = actually. By specifying PHP we spot a lot of things that need fixing, = and 5.7 is a good time to fix them or note that we=92re going to fix = them. That means we don=92t have these loose ends lying around as = specified behaviour for two or three years. It could also be the first = version of PHP which would have the official specification and = implementation released at the same time, I hope. :) -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/