On 17.10.2016 at 23:09, Craig Duncan wrote:

> On 17 October 2016 at 21:57, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand the motivation for throwing a deprecation notice
>> instead of a warning. In particular, what is the action that will be taken
>> here in the next major version? I guess we would throw a warning and return
>> false (instead of 0/1). But is the change of return value from 0/1 to false
>> really sufficiently worthwhile to go with a deprecation first?
>
> I don't feel strongly either way, as long as there's some clue that
> something's not right.
> 
> Is there precedent for adding warnings in a minor? Would there be BC
> concerns there?

<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/notice-for-non-valid-array-container> is
supposed to introduce a new E_WARNING in PHP 7.2.

And yes, there is a (small) BC break, but even E_DEPRECATED might be
regarded as such.

> I wouldn't want an RFC for a warning to fail when people would have voted
> for a deprecation.

You might consider offering this as voting option.

>> In any case, if you want to go with deprecation, please specify what
>> action this RFC implies for PHP 8.
>
> Would it be acceptable for the RFC to state that this has no implications
> for PHP 8, and is an indefinite deprecation?

In my opinion, an indefinite deprecation doesn't make much sense.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker


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