Hi! >> And since you're targetting the next major release, BC isn't an issue. > > This sort of blanket statements that "Backwards Compatibility is not an > issue" with a new major version is extremely unwarranted. *Extreme care* > should be taken when deciding to break Backwards Compatibility. It > should not be "oh we have a major new version so we can break all the > things"™.
I agree. Major means we *can* break BC, if there's a reason good enough, but that doesn't mean we get to break BC *for free*. We do need to carefully weight it each time and ensure it is worth it, not dismiss it with "oh, it's PHP 7, so we can do anything we want, BC is no longer a concern". We have millions of people using PHP 5, and the goal is for almost all of them to eventually use PHP 7, otherwise there's no point in it. Each BC break creates another hurdle on the way to it. We should take it seriously. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
