On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:15 PM Chase Peeler <chasepee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 3:06 PM Olumide Samson <oludons...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:00 PM Michael Babker <michael.bab...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > 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. >> > >> >> Not sure you are really seeing the goal... >> >> Why is LTS not a good idea? >> And, if the majority want this or that, can we just blow everything into >> full dictatorship where i can host my fork of PHP doing uncountable >> unwanted things i can call it..? >> >> Any which way, i think the majority of us are tired of writing bad codes, >> but since the language is allowing it we don't have choices than to spend >> some hours or weeks later debugging the wrong or right line we did that >> last "big mistake", who knows there might be another line smiling coz i >> haven't detected it... >> > > I can write good code without sacrificing the flexibility provided by PHP. > Don't force ME to write code a specific way because you aren't disciplined > enough to not write bad code without the compiler forcing you to do things > a certain way. > > Of all of the justifications for this RFC I've heard, "I can't stop > writing bad code as long as I'm allowed to" has to be the worst. > > Yea, that's just one of the popular reasons, there are more if you go on Stack Overflow and see what this dynamism(my foot) has caused to real-world codes and fortunes that has been lost due to it(Which i'm also a testimony to the fact). > -- > Chase Peeler > chasepee...@gmail.com >
