Hi!

> and weird to me, and can be quickly emulated with list($a,$b) =
> str_split([“ab”][0]); if someone was actually using it.

BC breaks don't work this way. When somebody's code would break on PHP
7, their first move would not be "oh, great, let's refactor it, it was
too arcane anyway". It would be "OK, let's postpone the upgrade to
$current_year + 5".
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Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/

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