Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77903 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 27703 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2014 12:39:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 2014 12:39:55 -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] ([198.187.29.245:48708] helo=imap11-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D0/00-27613-8967A345 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:39:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9354288000A; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:39:49 -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 RlLl9HyV5e_z; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:39:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.26.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB05F8800CB; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:39:46 -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: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:39:42 +0100 Cc: Nikita Popov , Derick Rethans , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: To: Zeev Suraski X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7 From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 12 Oct 2014, at 11:36, Zeev Suraski wrote: > For the record, I don't feel strongly about # comments, but I do think = that > we should have good reasons to actually *remove* features that are = better > than "this is how it's done". Valid reasons can be performance = penalties of > keeping the feature, security issues, or potential significant = reduction in > codebase complexity. I'm not sure whether # comments fall into any of = these > buckets, but sounds like they don=92t. Allowing # for comments stops you from using # in string property = values. Though I=92m not sure why you=92d need to. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/