Re: [PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP?

[Nick Dickinson-Wilde via internals]

-------- Original message --------From: Andreas Leathley <a.leath...@gmx.net> 
Date: 2023-04-11  07:19  (GMT-08:00) To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: 
[PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP? On 11.04.23 15:56, Jeffrey Dafoe wrote:>> So 
turn off the deprecation warnings for now. They're just a heads up that>> 
behaviour is going to change in the future, with PHP 9.>>>> I doubt you'd 
prefer not to be aware of the change well in advance.> Oh, absolutely. We run 
those "on" in our dev and QA environments but off in production. I'm referring 
to the work required to mitigate the removal once we plan to migrate to 9. 
Although our codebase is old, we are funded to keep the code up to date. It's 
just that a handful of the changes, such as removing dynamic properties, has 
such a large impact and such a questionable benefit.Removing dynamic properties 
has multiple benefits - from avoidingtypos/mistakesAs a heavy php user but not 
core contributor... removal of dynamic properties is just simply fantastic. 
Dynamic properties hide so many horrors and were the cause of the singular most 
difficult to debug issue I've ever dealt with that was easily 
replicated.NickNick Dickinson-Wilde
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