> Le 14 août 2019 à 19:01, Olumide Samson <hisamson...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > This was exactly my reason for participating in this discussion, if such > simple BC break encounters fierce and lengthy-weighted resistance, I'm not > sure there will ever be a BC break, only additions without a necessary > cleanup. > > That's just like, there's a precedent to resist all kinds of BC break > simply because there's no positive impact on the change.
No, BC breaks and cleanups have been regularly implemented in the past, and that will continue. Two recent examples among several others: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-ext-interbase <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-ext-interbase> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity> About short-open tags. Many people thought that this particular BC break or cleanup was not useful enough. That’s all. —Claude