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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow Iterator to be used with current, next, reset,
 key functions
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

> I also think it is a good thing to clean up the ways to work with
> arrays or iterable but we have to be very careful how we do it. I am
> not sure an actual deprecation is a good thing in 7.x without breaking
> any kind of tests out there. Indeed it will not break code but it is
> rather bad to break tests and it is a very annoying thing to do while
> trying to be good at using the latest PHP version.

I understand the concern here but getting out deprecation notices out
early would be more important in my opinion. Additionally when we
decided to make PHP 7 our next release we had already released 5.6. I
pushed for a 5.7 to allow for deprecation notices as well as more time
to develop features for 7.0 but that's not the route we took. I point
this out to show that waiting for the last 7.x release is not prudent.