The PEAR maintainers seem to disagree with the direction PHP is going as a language, so they don't keep it up to date with changes in the language. If you want to use PEAR, you need to either hack the code yourself (why use PEAR) or you need to put PHP in an out-of-date compatibility mode.
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PEAR's got a number of problems.
The PEAR maintainers seem to disagree with the direction PHP is going as a language, so they don't keep it up to date with changes in the language. If you want to use PEAR, you need to either hack the code yourself (why use PEAR) or you need to put PHP in an out-of-date compatibility mode.