On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 22:40, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hypothetically, it can be re-evaluated sooner, particularly if "everyone" > in the PHP ecosystem appears to respond very well once the deprecation and > error stages happen. In fact, I wouldn't want "but we voted for 9.0" to be > a point being made if/when that discussion comes along. My point is that > the removal release/date, in my opinion, is a detail that we don't need to > be concerned with right now and it's just adding noise. You disagree, and > that's totally okay. > Regardless of when we have the conversation, I will remain opposed to removing it any time before 9.0. There's very little justification for removing it in the first place, so I can't imagine what justification there'd be to remove it 2 or 3 years earlier. The only advantage I can see of delaying the debate is to leave open the possibility of keeping the error into 10.0. If that becomes necessary, it will be a sign that something has gone wrong, because it will imply that takeup of 8.x was so low that people are still running code where this syntax is used. Sadly, given the current zeal for removing working features, I fear that may happen. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]
