On Wed, August 2, 2006 5:06 pm, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello Richard, > > Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 11:55:45 PM, you wrote: > >> On Wed, August 2, 2006 7:32 am, Zeev Suraski wrote: >>> I believe the problem is that 10 years ago we introduced what can >>> be >>> described as 'loose OO programming', and we're replacing it >>> (instead >>> of augmenting it) with strict OO programming. > >> And there are people who actually LIKE the 'loose OO programming' >> paradigm. > >> Presumably also some who don't really care, but who have significant >> bodies of code utilizing the 'looseness' who will simply refuse to >> upgrade to PHP 5 -- thus exacerbating the problem of PHP 4 sticking >> around for far longer than some would like. > > There is no problem with 4. It works it has its friends. Why should we > discontinue it like Microsoft would do? Give me any reason. We just do > not add new features.
I like 4 just fine! There are some very nice features in 5, mind you... SOAP springs to mind. The fact that active development of new features for 4 is the writing on the wall that it's not something you want to use for new applications. My comment was more directed towards those who bemoan the large shared webhost vendors who have not moved to PHP 5, rather than educated developers who maintain legacy codebase in 4. Anyway, there is still some point in the future where we'll actively discourage users from continuing to use 4, just as we did with 3 and with 2. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
