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nkozyra on Oct 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion

Of course, but they won't do that because of backwards compatibility and I get that.

It's one of the nice parts of rebranding. Hack could keep and throw out anything they wanted because it was intended for private FB use. At some point, PHP will have to start cutting off the stdlib PHP4.x warts. There's enough about PHP 7 that's good enough to be compelling to anyone working in an interpreted language on the web, but the (well earned) reputation keeps a lot of people away.

kyriakos on Oct 14, 2016 [–]

They don't have to remove them. Just put the updated versions under a namespace. This will slowly help developers migrate.

nkozyra on Oct 15, 2016 | [–]

Even that will break existing code, which is the reason it hasn't happened in the first place.

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