On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:08 AM Girgias <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 22:52, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Girgias
>>
>> It seems good list in general.
>> There would not be issues marking them as deprecated.
>> "Deprecation" means "Soft deprecation", correct?
>>
>> Removing these aliases from PHP 8 is not good idea.
>> Aliases should be removed when nobody cares about these aliases.
>>
>> For example, pg_loopen()/etc were there until nobody cares about these
>> aliases.
>> New names, pg_lo_open()/etc, were given in PHP4.x. These changes were
>> documented since PHP 4.x.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Yasuo Ohgaki
>> yohg...@ohgaki.net
>>
>
> Hello Yasuo Ohgaki.
>
> By Deprecation, I was indeed meaning that as of PHP 8 these function
> should throw
> E_DEPRECATED errors and be removed as of PHP 9 which would give plenty of
> time
> for people to adapt and upgrade their codebase.
>

This is good approach, too.
The alias system does not allow to get currently called function name w/o
overhead, AFAIK. i.e. It simply calls defined functions.

Perhaps, add

PHP_FALIAS_DEPRECATED()

for it.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net

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