Yep I agree but unfortunately it seems that most people on the dev
team either don't care or don't speak up.
Also, I asked time and again to add BC breaking changes to an
UPGRADING file. Had that been done we would have noticed and could
have reacted.
At 05:17 AM 5/11/2006, Derick Rethans wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
> Marcus Boerger wrote:
> > It is just some decision that was taken that the newer OO stuff
should be a
> > bit more strict.
>
> I don't remember any such decision. I don't even remember a
discussion about
> it. I'm aware of the efforts of some people to make PHP less PHP
and more Java
> and thus we end up in a situation where:
>
> class foo{}; foo::$bar = 1;
>
> is a fatal error. This makes things that I really like about PHP
impossible.
> By now I'm used to being not constrained by a static language and
having such
> restrictions placed on new features makes no sense to me.
Yup, I agree. OO is good, but it shouldn't limit application development
just for the sake of things not being pure OO.
Derick
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