On 28/12/2013 08:43, Ralf Lang wrote:
When redesigning for PHP6, shouldn't most functions move to a class or namespace in the first place?
You make it sound like such a redesign is an obvious and achievable goal for the next "major" release of PHP. Neither PHP 5 nor the abandoned PHP 6 branch (Unicode strings, plus the features which were released as 5.3 and 5.4 instead) attempted anything so radical, and the more you change, the harder it is to persuade people to migrate.
I suspect this has been discussed a lot of times, although I've only joined the list recently. A search through the archives before taking this discussion further would probably avoid repeating arguments that have been had before, unless anyone has a good summary somewhere?
Not that I'm against moving towards consistency per se, but I wouldn't want to assume that whatever stopped it gaining traction in the past no longer applies.
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Rowan Collins
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