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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC][DISCUSSION] Strict Argument Count
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> The section about '"Flexible" Interface Implementations' mentions the
> interface as an 'an acceptable “PHPism”'.
> 
> This is not just an "acceptable PHPism", it's a "life saving PHPism".
/.../
> Getting this change into PHP7 would mean having a major part of the
> framework community having a real hard time in upgrading.
>

I get a certain vibe from this RFC that the author just says something
like "I like this idea so much that damn the BC, those people should
just rewrite their code for latest standards, it probably will just take
2 minutes or so" while ignoring what this means for actual production
applications in PHP (e.g: no upgrade, for years). People still running
5.3, massively, and we're building a huge wall here which would block
anybody from trying out 7 because their production app would just not
work. And the reaction of people whose app does not work is not "we
should spend next quarter rewriting our app", it's "ok, maybe we'll look
at that next year". Because it's probably was initially written
targeting 5.0 if not 4.x. I mean I get that some people want to be not
bound by the past and just do whatever they want because past is not
cool and making drastic changes is cool. But I don't see how it is going
to be a good thing for us.

And the worst of it - it doesn't actually allow to make anything
additional we couldn't do before, just produces more errors.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com