Bart van Bragt wrote:
The 'communicate more clearly' part is what this (IMO) all boils down to. As I said, I understand that BC breaks are sometimes needed, no problem with that. The problem lies in the fact that we now all of the
I made a suggestion in regards to this a few days ago on this list. However the mail went unanswered. So it goes.
sudden have lots of applications stopping with a fatal error because of this '$ref =& $this' thing. That's just BAD. Give people time to create workarounds for this (if the break is really needed) and make sure that it's possible to keep your code working on all PHP versions that are currently in use. There are quite a few workarounds for BC breaks in
The point is that this is simply not feasible, neither on the php developers end nor on the php users end, unless users put all your logic into eval().
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