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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:07:38 +0300
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] question regarding #67309
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> resurrecting this thread in the hope of getting a bit more feedback.
>
> About removing functions - I don't really see any particular win in it.
> I mean, we'd have enough BC concerns in PHP 7 without having to worry
> about missing functions that didn't hurt anybody. However, it may be
> fine to add a note in the manual saying "please use ini_*, it's better
> style" or something like that.

My suggestion was to deprecate them first, which isn't much different
to adding a doc note that ini_*() is better.

Cheers,
Andrey.