Hi! > Although it is true that an upgrade from PHP 7 to 8 will involve more > work, it is not true that it does not hurt anyone. This is a well > known problem in design: > > https://www.nngroup.com/articles/reduce-redundancydecrease-duplicated-de > sign-decisions/
This is all generic advice which is nice and well if we would be designing language anew. As it is, we are not - we already have lots of code using var. For code not using var, removing var does not do anything. For code using var, removing var means no upgrade. It is unnecessary breakage for the sake of feeling that we follow the advice somebody put on the website. That feeling is not worth very real work that people would have to do to achieve what they already have now. > - "What is the difference between *implode* and *join*?" Yes, PHP has aliases. Nothing wrong with that, provided you bother to look in the manual once, and then you are enlightened forever. > It confuses users and wastes their time. It only wastes their time if they don't read the manual but instead chat on Stackoverflow :) Which I have nothing against, -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com
