The PHP 7 Revolution: Return Types and Removed Artifacts

[tony_marston404]

@Hall_of_Famer

Oh my, your argument surprised me. I guess before asking me this question, how about taking it to popular framework community Symfony, Zend 2 and Laravel and ask them why they decide to drop support for PHP 5.2? Or maybe, you should even ask Wordpress why support for PHP 4 was dropped?

I don’t give a toss about those other frameworks as they are totally useless for writing enterprise applications. The only framework I use is my own, and that still runs on all versions of PHP 5 as well as PHP 4. If those other framework developers can’t do the same then perhaps they are the ones who are incompetent.

@Hall_of_Famer

Or I guess you didnt really read or bother to read what I wrote carefully. The fact is that older version(1.1 and 1.2) of my script still ran on PHP 5.2, but it was no longer supported for bugs and security fixes, as CPradio hinted above. The newer version(1.3 and the 1.4 still in development) uses namespace, late static binding and closure, which implies a minimum version of PHP 5.3.

I never bother using new features as soon as they come out - such as namespaces, late static binding and closures - so my single codebase is capable of running on any version of PHP.

@Hall_of_Famer

Those who stick with PHP 5.2 will have to use an older version of the script, and like I said before these versions are no longer supported. I was generous enough to continue to support PHP 5.3, as I already was forced to give up some neat new syntax only available in PHP 5.4.

I don’t waste my time in refactoring my code in order to use new syntax that came out in a new release as it instantly makes that code totally incompatible with all earlier releases. The only time I change my code is in response to a user requirement.