Am 08.12.2017 um 18:55 schrieb Stephen Reay:
On 8 Dec 2017, at 5:16 pm, li...@rhsoft.net <mailto:li...@rhsoft.net>
wrote:
"Now expressing the same thing in two different ways, with or without
& is confusing, so I think one needs to think about if old syntax
should be deprecated in 8.0" would be a massive BC break
That wasn’t in Rowans suggestion, it was in Björn’s response to the
original message. You’re either not reading who wrote what before you
reply, or you’re deliberately trying to imply a person has advocated for
something they never even mentioned.
i responded to Björn's response and when someone than quotes me and
refer to a side thread i am really not guilty
Even *if* the consensus was to drop support for & references in php8 -
thats a major new version, with AFAIK, literally no planned ETA, of any
kind
besides that's not the topic at all and i just responded to "If you
point is pass-by-reference is bad and stupid, then it's off-topic and I
suggest you should create a new RFC to abandon this feature"
however, "that's a major new version" is completly irrelevant in this
point of time - what is relevant to think about the outcome of whatever
is suggested *long before* something is even seriously considered to
make things right - with the least possible BC break unless it is
justified by a major benefit which makes the break worth
that's somehow learning from past mistakes and avoid to repeat them in
similar changes - if such discussions would have happened always before
consider implementations we would not sit here with similar functions
but reverse parameter order and other such "nice" things which are ugly
but fix them now would introduce a lot of more troubles than it solves
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