Florian Margaine wrote on 16/01/2015 13:01: Hi Stelian, > > Stelian Mocanita writes: > > Hello everyone, >> >> Might I suggest community feedback on this one in a reddit thread? My >> guess >> is that even though a lot of applications out there are still PHP 4 ctor >> reliant, a very low percentage of these applications might be under active >> development. >> > Not under active development doesn't mean that the application shouldn't > be able to upgrade PHP and enjoy the bug/security fixes or performance > improvements that new versions provide.
Completely agree, but you get once in N years a chance to do some cleanup on the language. If people expect no BC breaks on major versions, when is the time for the cleanup? That's one thing. The other thing is that there's a flow in your logic. If you want the bug/security/performance fixes, it means you are already running latest stable and for some reason you completely ignored all of the deprecation warnings until now. I think we can both agree on this being a bit far-fetched. Not to mention that all the old ctor fatal errors can be fixed with an automated scripts that replaces the old ctors with the new ones. Stelian
