What's new in PHP 8?

Re:What's new in PHP 8? by john-shaffer on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:12AM (#24158939)

You're talking about hypothetical code, but I am talking about actual code that worked fine but no longer works after an upgrade. Perhaps it was poorly written, but it was not buggy.

I can't think of a single time that I've seen a bug exposed by language changes. I have seen dozens of bugs created by language changes, however. (Mostly crashes).

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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by wvenable on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:56PM (#24161040)

If you're depending on very weird edge cases in PHP I'd consider that buggy even if it works.

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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by john-shaffer on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#24161290)

This is a completely useless discussion if you're going to assume that code depends on "very weird edge cases" with no idea of what the code actually does.

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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by wvenable on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:17PM (#24162088)

You're welcome to post an example.

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