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Re: Extension compatibility policy


Joseph S. Myers wrote:

And in that case we did consider users: although the concatenation of __FUNCTION__ wasn't documented, it emitted a deprecation warning in the 3.0, 3.1/3.2 and 3.3 release series before being removed in 3.4.

Fair enough. I think it is useful to include documentation in a clear place when the incompatible change is finally made. Of course, not everyone will read it :-)



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