[theme-reviewers] PHP 5.3 In Themes

[Otto]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Ryan Van Etten <ryanve at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see WP be proactive about encouraging users to use 5.3+. The
> sooner we get the majority on 5.3, the better it will be for the core too.

Call me crazy, but I don't think it's a particularly good idea to
offer code that won't work with 2/3rds of the existing user base.

http://wordpress.org/about/stats/

Note that most people don't have any control over what version of PHP
is running on their server.

-Otto