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Re:How Badoo Saved $1M Switching to PHP7 by vpkaihla on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:47AM (#11288693)
No, it's not nonsense. The things you listed in there are incremental fixes, not fundamental.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php

How would you fix this without breaking most PHP code out there?

How would you fix ==, > and < behaviour without breaking most PHP code out there?

How would you fix Unicode without breaking most PHP code out there?

If PHP fixed things like this, it would be a decent programming language, but it would also break a lot of things. Kinda of like what python3 did, only that it didn't have to break quite so much, since python2 was already pretty decent.

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