Tony Marston wrote on 09/02/2015 10:07:
There may not be an actual RFC for any of these *YET*, but the
revolutionaries are still out there, plotting and scheming in their
dark corners. They will be the ones who leap on an innocent-sounding
feature and silently convert it to something more insid
Lester Caine wrote on 09/02/2015 01:31:
On 09/02/15 00:05, Rowan Collins wrote:
>>Some of the new 'styles' of writing things are
>>going to make things considerably worse for those who are going to have
>>to maintain this code in the future.
>
>If you're writing code that you know will be har
On 09/02/2015 11:07, Tony Marston wrote:
There may not be an actual RFC for any of these *YET*, but the
revolutionaries are still out there, plotting and scheming in their dark
corners. They will be the ones who leap on an innocent-sounding feature
and silently convert it to something more insidi
"Matteo Beccati" wrote in message news:54d883d2.5020...@beccati.com...
On 09/02/2015 10:49, Tony Marston wrote:
But there is a vociferous group who want to change the language in a
revolutionary way instead of an evolutionary way. They want to drop weak
typing and replace it with strict typing
On 09/02/2015 10:49, Tony Marston wrote:
But there is a vociferous group who want to change the language in a
revolutionary way instead of an evolutionary way. They want to drop weak
typing and replace it with strict typing, they want to replace a lot of
function names with something "more consis
"Matteo Beccati" wrote in message news:54d74c68.6070...@beccati.com...
On 08/02/2015 11:24, Tony Marston wrote:
Well said. If it is not possible to have a single codebase that runs in
both PHP 5 *AND* PHP 7 then that will be a total disaster.
Of course you can have a single codebase running
On 09/02/15 00:05, Rowan Collins wrote:
>> Some of the new 'styles' of writing things are
>> going to make things considerably worse for those who are going to have
>> to maintain this code in the future.
>
> If you're writing code that you know will be hard to maintain in the
> future, you're d
On 08/02/2015 20:53, Lester Caine wrote:
On 08/02/15 19:00, Rowan Collins wrote:
We have a single code base happily running on 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and I think
even 5.5, so it is definitely possible with some code bases. There were
a few pieces that had to be changed to work right under 5.3 and 5.4, b
On 08/02/15 19:00, Rowan Collins wrote:
> We have a single code base happily running on 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and I think
> even 5.5, so it is definitely possible with some code bases. There were
> a few pieces that had to be changed to work right under 5.3 and 5.4, but
> none for which the new solution d
On 08/02/2015 12:30, Lester Caine wrote:
Currently it is impossible to run the PHP5.2 code base on PHP5.4. That
is a simple fact. So I can't do between 5.2 and 5.4 what I am currently
doing between 5.4 and 7. The code has to be reworked ... so what ever
anybody says PHP5 .4*IS* PHP6 in terms of
On 08/02/2015 11:45, Matteo Beccati wrote:
On 08/02/2015 11:24, Tony Marston wrote:
Well said. If it is not possible to have a single codebase that runs in
both PHP 5 *AND* PHP 7 then that will be a total disaster.
Of course you can have a single codebase running both on PHP5 and
PHP7, unless
On 08/02/15 11:43, Ralf Lang wrote:
> A lot of sites sticked with PHP5.3 because they were driven by
> enterprise platforms which by definition won't upgrade during the life
> cycle. That had its own costs and aches which are entirely not PHP's fault.
>
>> > PHP7 is proposing a LOT of shiny new fe
On 08/02/2015 11:24, Tony Marston wrote:
Well said. If it is not possible to have a single codebase that runs in
both PHP 5 *AND* PHP 7 then that will be a total disaster.
Of course you can have a single codebase running both on PHP5 and PHP7,
unless you want to use PHP7-only features.
But t
Hi Lester,
On 07.02.2015 13:36, Lester Caine wrote:
> My personal experience of PHP4 is simply one of having been developing
> all my code in PHP5.0 to 5.2 but ensuring that the code also still run
> clean on the PHP4 host.
Actually, PHP 4 changed a lot of things from PHP3. PHP 5.0.0 on the
othe
"Lester Caine" wrote in message news:54d73248.9030...@lsces.co.uk...
On 08/02/15 06:37, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
Hi Lester,
PHP7 is proposing a LOT of shiny new features which will break much
legacy code. So the question has to be just what is the plan
regarding
cross version support.
On 08/02/15 06:37, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> Hi Lester,
>
> PHP7 is proposing a LOT of shiny new features which will break much
> legacy code. So the question has to be just what is the plan regarding
> cross version support. I see that the general consensus is PHP5 should
> just run?
Hi Lester,
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> PHP7 is proposing a LOT of shiny new features which will break much
> legacy code. So the question has to be just what is the plan regarding
> cross version support. I see that the general consensus is PHP5 should
> just run?
>
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