Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:91502 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36812 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2016 18:15:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Mar 2016 18:15:38 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 68.118.157.39 68-118-157-39.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com Received: from [68.118.157.39] ([68.118.157.39:21213] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id DB/F0-25279-8C0D9D65 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:15:36 -0500 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:15:33 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Posted-By: 68.118.157.39 Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.1 From: me@stephencoakley.com (Stephen Coakley) On 02/18/2016 06:41 AM, Nikita Popov wrote: > Hi internals! > > I've created a bulk-deprecation RFC for PHP 7.1: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_1 > > I'm using this RFC to collect various deprecations targeting PHP 7.1, as > having individual RFCs for these is too much management overhead. Each > deprecated feature will get its own vote, of course. > > This RFC is incomplete -- I'm posting it now so people can suggest other > things that should be deprecated. I expect it to grow over time and don't > plan to vote on it in the immediate future. > > Thanks, > Nikita > My stance on deprecations: > It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more > to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. > - Antoine de Saint Exupéry I'd say any function that provides duplicate functionality, or encourages bad practice, should be deprecated. Keeping the standard library clean and focused is ideal. -- Stephen