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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:58:35 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Question/comment about the Array to String conversion RFC
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>> On 19 =D7=91=D7=9E=D7=A8=D7=A5 2015, at 19:40, Dan Ackroyd <danack@baser=
eality.com> wrote:
>>
>> You are being dumb here as well. We try to avoid breaking code in
>> point releases. This BC break can only be done at a major version.
>
> Technically, we're not allowed to move from from a working feature into a=
 removed one without a deprecation phase.

We have historically broke BC a lot without deprecation. I also know
of no such rule in our written RFCs. If historical behavior says
otherwise, and we don't have this written down anywhere... how can you
claim this is a rule?