On 10 October 2014 22:46, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > PHP 5.6 has been out for *less than two months*. Let’s say PHP 7 comes out > in 18 months’ time, so June 2016. Even then, PHP 5.6 would have been around > for less than 20 months. It is incredibly unreasonable to suggest that > application developers should move to this new API and completely suspend > usage of the previous one in such a short timespan (especially given how > few people will have moved to 5.6 by then) for a non-security fix. >
Assuming PHP 7.0 came out in 2 years from now, I don't expect a decent adoption rate anyway for the next 5 years. Even in such a case, isn't it possible to have PHP "include" the polyfill from an actual location instead of basing the function definition on some internals voodoo? Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
