Submission + - Why isn't PHP5 migration fixed yet? (fplanque.com)
Francois writes: "It's been 3 years since the release of PHP5. Yet PHP 4 still rules on the vast majority of web hosting platforms.
This is annoying for PHP open source developers who cannot leverage the potential of PHP 5 as long as they need to support PHP 4. This is also annoying for the PHP development group since they still need to support PHP 4 instead of focusing on PHP 6.
There would be an obvious solution: let PHP 5 behave like PHP 4 and explicitely request "PHP 5 mode" at the beginning of a script. Yet the PHP team seems to fail to recognize it... and the PHP world is still stuck in 2004."
This is annoying for PHP open source developers who cannot leverage the potential of PHP 5 as long as they need to support PHP 4. This is also annoying for the PHP development group since they still need to support PHP 4 instead of focusing on PHP 6.
There would be an obvious solution: let PHP 5 behave like PHP 4 and explicitely request "PHP 5 mode" at the beginning of a script. Yet the PHP team seems to fail to recognize it... and the PHP world is still stuck in 2004."
