On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:51 PM Peter Kokot <peterko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a dumb idea, since there clearly is a majority in favor of the > change with these warnings and strictness and all that now... Why not > making something like an LTS PHP 7.x where all the legacy code would > work OK as long as practically possible and 8.x+ would be the future > of what the developers want and not what business wants? One who won't > upgrade due to the BC breaks also won't need the new features anyway > very realistically. > Please don't tie the notion of LTS with the idea that a new major can break BC at will or create larger scale breaks because the previous major has extended support. Sooner or later that will end up back at the ++ idea and fragmentation encouraged by the language is a bad idea.
