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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove old PHP6 forward compatibility
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Back when PHP6 was actually a thing, we added the 'b' string literal
> prefix and the (binary) cast to be forward compatible with PHP6,
> however since the entire unicode strings part were dropped, these are
> no longer needed.
> 
> I think its safe to remove these 2, and take it as a lession learned,
> to safely and selectively added forward compatibile features.

Why remove it? I'm not sure what removing it would improve.

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