On 16/06/2016 19:11, Levi Morrison wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Rowan Collins<rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Why? What's special about 7.1? If it was a case of finishing off changes
>that "should have been part of 7.0", I can see some kind of logic, but the
>ones we're actually discussing seem to be more about "preparing for 8.0".
I didn't necessarily mean the currently proposed; I mean more
generally. For instance Nullable Types and the associated
ReflectionType changes both have small BC breaks that I don't mind. In
the case of the former there is a long-standing bug that did have BC
break impact that was fixed.
Ah, fair enough, thanks for clarifying.
As noted before, the nullable types case included careful analysis of
small BC breaks that were a side-effect of a major new feature being
released as part of 7.1. I wouldn't personally draw a distinction in
between adding it in x.1 vs x.2 or x.3; either the BC hiccup is
acceptable, or the feature should be roadmapped to x+1.0.
But the ReflectionType case definitely feels like clean-up of 7.0, so
makes sense to me as an example.
Regards,
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Rowan Collins
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