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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On BC and not being evil (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC]
 Integer Semantics)
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

> Every time we break BC =E2=80=94 in either of the ways Derick said =E2=80=
=94 we narrow
> the subset of PHP 5 and PHP 7 that's available to people writing PHP
> code that has to work on both. If we narrow it too far, it'll be too
> unexpressive, or too hard to use, or just plain won't do something
> that they'll need, and PHP 7 will risk becoming this decade's Perl 6:
> the cautionary tale for what happens when you burn all the boats.

I agree with this idea principle.

I disagree that these RFCs are breaking so much backwards
compatibility to create the next Perl 6.