Hi,
Joe Watkins wrote:
Morning Andrea,
Who is widely deploying something that does absolutely nothing ?
PHAR uses (binary), or so Pedro's email says.
The only reason to keep it would be that we are going to change the
default representation, as pointed out we're not.
If we were adding it tomorrow, maybe, but `b` and the (binary) cast are
already here. A high standard must be met for removing features. These
aren't a security problem, nor a maintenance burden. There's not a good
case for removing them and breaking backwards-compatibility
This cannot have been left in for considered reasons, it was just
forgotten about.
If it was to be removed, the time to do so would have been right after
PHP 6's failure. But it's been years now. I'm unconvinced there's a
strong case to remove it.
Thanks for your reply.
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