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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On the road to PHP 5.7 , or not ?
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

On 12 December 2014 at 23:00, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> I must disagree: 5.7 would only be trivially different from 5.6 (deprecat=
ions), the effort involved is only as much as continuing to maintain 5.6, a=
nd we have to do that anyway. So there=E2=80=99s no problem with working on=
 both.
>

I have to say I very much agree with this. I see 5.7 as a featureless
stepping stone to aid 7.0 adoption. Very much in line with what Ferenc
suggested earlier on.