On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:51 PM Olumide Samson <oludons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Only lazy developers would complain about updating legacy code, perhaps > the code itself is worthless and need not be updated. > > Then, what's the point of pursuing latest features or PHP version when a > individual or a company can't pursue code upgrade before version update? > Please don't be rude. Nikita On Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 8:41 PM Philip Hofstetter <phofstet...@sensational.ch> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:17 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > In the cases you encountered, do you know what type count() was used on? >> > Was it null? false? Or something else? >> > >> > Nikita >> >> we were in a similar boat as Björn to the point where we manually >> patched PHP in production in order to not emit that warning so we >> could update PHP while we were migrating the code-base. This made the >> 7.1 to 7.2 update the most painful update in the history of this >> application (which was first released when 5.0.0 came out). >> >> The most common case was `count(null)` which unfortunately was >> happening all the time because of functions deciding to return an >> array with elements or null if there was no elements to be found. Yes, >> that's bad form, but hey - this is a nearly 20 years old application. >> >> Of all the changes I've seen happening in PHP, this was the most painful. >> >> Philip >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >>
