Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
The PHP 6 stuff is still up in the air. The original suggestion was to carry through with the deprecation of [] which I strongly vetoed since it would break everything. We can revisit whether we want to remove {} in PHP 6. I didn't think people had such strong feelings about it. From my checks with people, most had no idea you could even use {}'s on strings.
Can't you see that it is not about braces? It is about BC, language design and evolution.
BTW, could you please enlighten me in regards to the whole BC issue? What is the reason you try to keep compatibility between different language versions(like 5 and 4)? So far I've seen only this reason: "They maintain BC, because people want to use PHP 5 to run PHP 4 scripts, because by the language design they are required to use either PHP 4 or 5, because they decided to maintain BC, because people want to use PHP 5 to run PHP 4 scripts..."
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