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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dragging the legacy users forward.
From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston")

"Matteo Beccati"  wrote in message news:54D74C68.6070402@beccati.com...
>
>On 08/02/2015 11:24, Tony Marston wrote:
>> Well said. If it is not possible to have a single codebase that runs in
>> both PHP 5 *AND* PHP 7 then that will be a total disaster.
>
>Of course you can have a single codebase running both on PHP5 and PHP7, 
>unless you want to use PHP7-only features.
>
>But that doesn't mean that any codebase that currently runs on PHP5 will 
>keep working on PHP7 without any changes. Most of the "modern" codebases 
>probably will though.

But there is a vociferous group who want to change the language in a 
revolutionary way instead of an evolutionary way. They want to drop weak 
typing and replace it with strict typing, they want to replace a lot of 
function names with something "more consistent", and they want PHP to have a 
"purer" OO model so that instead of "string = strtoupper($string)" you must 
use "$string->toUpper". These revolutionaries want PHP 7 to be a different 
language, not an extension of the existing PHP 5 version.

-- 
Tony Marston