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jaytaph / Transphpile

PHP 7 to PHP 5.6 Transpiler
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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to 5.6 or 5.3 ? #2

Closed docteurklein closed 8 years ago

docteurklein commented 8 years ago

In your description, you say the target is 5.6, but the title in the README says 5.3. What is the target?

BTW, nice idea of you!

jaytaph commented 8 years ago

The idea is to transpile to 5.3 (mostly because there are still (too) many systems running on 5.3.x, (don't ask!)).. However, transpiling every php 5.4,5.5,5.6 and 7.0 feature back is a bit too difficult (for instance, generators and such).

So.. Our direct goal is PHP5.6, and hopefully we can transpile back most things to php5.5. As said in issue #1, if that is not possible we could add warnings. Most generated transpiled code though is based on php 5.3.

I probably would need to change the readme and setup some (decent) documentation on it to make the goals more consistent :)