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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100
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Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?RE:_=5BPHP-DEV=5D_Ten_years_estimate?=
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From: francois@php.net (=?UTF-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Laupretre?=)

> De : Nathan wesley [mailto:nathan.o.wesley@gmail.com]
>=20
> The old API should be deprecated in PHP 8.0 and removed completely in =
PHP
> 9.0 (finally)

That's totally unrealistic. The old API will remain forever (well, we'll =
examine the case again in 20 years...).

I had planned to propose something for 7.0 but I didn't have enough =
time.

> I hope that you take this seriously and tell me if there are any
> limitations that prevents this from happening.

I think that, while attractive, using the same syntax for object methods =
and scalar 'pseudo-'methods is too ambiguous. We just need to solve two =
issues : intuitive order of arguments and nested call readability. We =
don't need to implement the whole OO stuff for scalars. Except this =
detail, no limitation IMO.

Regards

Fran=C3=A7ois