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Traits in PHP
March 23, 2015, 08:48:38 am
Drupal 8 is using Traits, a new language feature in PHP 5.4+: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php

Is this something we want to consider?
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Re: Traits in PHP
March 23, 2015, 09:01:36 am
According to our usage stats over 50% of sites are still on php 5.3.
But that would change if we dropped support for it ;)
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Re: Traits in PHP
April 27, 2015, 07:42:18 am
Could we update the minimum php version on a release to be at least the supported version. http://php.net/supported-versions.php

For example for 4.7 (release october - november 2015?) This would be php 5.5, since php 5.4 won't be supported by then anymore (5.3 isn't supported already)
For a version released after 20 jun 2016 the minimum version would be php 5.6
For a version released after  28 aug 2017 the minimum version would be php 5.7 (or 7)

We don't update the version for released versions, but only for future versions, and this gives us the possibility to use the new features. For example for 4.7 we could already start using traits.
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