Kicking a house is a poor analogy IMO - most people don’t upgrade a major language version without first verifying that their code still works in the new version.
And the PHP ecosystem is strong – it's possible to find out today if your code is likely to break (on undefined variables) with both static analysis tools and runtime error handlers. On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 13:24, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 August 2019 17:53:55 BST, Matthew Brown <matthewmatt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >It's not breaking all the things - it's breaking code that should have > >been broken already, but somehow wasn't. > > > It's still breaking it though. > > If you realise that a house is built badly and could be destroyed by a > well-aimed kick, you could just give it a kick and say "ah well, not my > fault"; or you could warn the owners, offer help in fixing it, and > understand that they might be too busy to do it right away. > > I don't see why it needs to be such a big deal to ask if this is something > we actually need to kick, right now. > > Regards, > > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
