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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation of func_get_args(), call_user_func_array()
 and related API
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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On 10 October 2014 22:39, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:

> The call_user_func() and call_user_func_array() functions are used all
> over the place.  I see absolutely no gain, whatsoever in removing them and
> forcing developers to write their own userland variants instead.
>
> --Kris
>
>
Of course they are, but that's obviously because any codebase written so
far didn't have PHP 5.6 support :-)
The main point here is moving forward and killing API that has no use-case
anymore (and has to be maintained).

Marco Pivetta

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