On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:48:38 +1000, alex23 wrote: > On 15/07/2014 11:57 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: >> The number of language revisions that result in deliberate, code-level >> incompatibility out there is pretty small. People rightly expect that >> code written for version 2.x of a language will continue to work with >> version 3.x, even if 3.x is designed to go in another direction. > > PHP regularly breaks compatibility between _minor_ version releases: > > http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php > > Even more so with major releases: > > http://php.net/manual/en/migration5.incompatible.php > > And yet I never see anywhere near as much angst and agony as Python 3.x > has caused.
Thank you for pointing this out! I thought that was the case with PHP, but I wasn't sure. Nice to have it confirmed. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
