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Posted by Wayne on 12/21/05 02:17
On 20 Dec 2005 23:53:00 GMT, "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>If you deprecate something, and no one cares, then it can be removed
>quickly. On the other hand, if it will have a huge affect, then it's
>smart to wait and see.
Of course, given that PHP issues a warning (under E_STRICT) for
depreciated elements the effect is pretty huge always. Unlike
compiled languages like C/C++ were the warning exists only at compile
time, PHP warnings have a much bigger effect.
>How much time? THAT is the question. There are some deprecated elements
>in C and C++ that expect will outlive me.
PHP should move at a much faster pace than C/C++. There are
significant differences between the platforms, the applications, and
the environments that they aren't entirely comparable. Since PHP5
breaks so much backwards compatibility anyway I don't think
depreciated elements should stick around as long -- it's not as if you
have as much legacy code around that is running that is not already
being modified.
PHP also has way more mistakes in it than, for example C/C++, that
should be corrected. PHP started out as a big ball of hacks!!
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