On 15.02.2017 at 13:52, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dan Ackroyd [mailto:dan...@basereality.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:22 PM >> To: Pedro Magalhães <m...@pmmaga.net> >> Cc: internals@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Binary String Deprecation >> >> I thought this RFC was likely to pass easily. >> >> It's always slightly unfortunate when RFCs are either accepted or rejected by >> a small margin, particularly when there doesn't seem to have been any >> voices against it. >> >> Please could anyone who voted no, illuminate the rest of us as to why voting >> no was the correct option? > > I can't speak for others, but for me, it's simply because there's no reason > to do it (remove it), while there may/might be a reason to keep it going > forward. Keeping it comes at zero cost, and if we ever do need a binary > string notation, it sounds more than likely that we'll pick this one. I see > no value at removing it even if there's a small chance we'll need it again.
For similar reasoning, I abstained from voting. Actually, I'm -0.1 on the deprecation. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
