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PHP4 to PHP5 was almost as big of a deal as Python2 to Python3. In fact, while I have PHP5 code that can easily ported to PHP7 -- I still have PHP4 code that w
by wvenable 10y ago
PHP4 to PHP5 was almost as big of a deal as Python2 to Python3. In fact, while I have PHP5 code that can easily ported to PHP7 -- I still have PHP4 code that will be forever on PHP4.
Because of this, PHP developers strive to avoid this kind of large breakage. Instead it's a smooth stream of deprecation and removals/changes and really large changes (like native unicode strings) have been non-starters.
- gkop 10y agoI might be misguided, but the last time I used PHP was over ten years ago, using PHP3, and we had to name the files my_file.php3 in order to use PHP3. That's the opposite of minimal breakage. On the other hand, my simple PHP3 scripts continue to work to this day, php3 extension and all!
- wvenable 10y agoThat's just how your server was/is configured.