On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, George Bond wrote: > If you wanted an upgrade path that was not Evil (in the sense of not > introducing subtle and hard-to-diagnose bugs), could you not change > the operator to be *un*associative in PHP7? That would effectively > just make concrete the discouragement/deprecation that's already in > the documentation, and would produce irritating but very visible > errors for anyone still actually using this functionality, as well as > making them alter their code in a forward-compatible way. Then if you > want to think really long term, plan to implement the 'correct' > associativity in the *next* major version.
As long as this unassociativity turns it into a hard syntax error (ie, "php -l" will catch it out), I am not against this. cheers, Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
