On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
> > I don't quite remember Andrei's reason for choosing zval * instead of zval
> > ** but it probably does make sense to change 'z' to return a zval **
> > instead of adding a new character ('Z') for returning zval **.
> > The downside is that we'd have to fix all of the extensions which sucks but
> > is quite doable. We've done it in the past for other changes.
>
> If you want to touch all extensions' code which are under
> your control, you can also do the minimal z->Z change without
> breaking the API for the rest of the world.
Right, I think changing the API does not really have any real benefit, and only causes problems in 3rd party exts.
Okay, no problem. I just wanted to bring it up so that we reach some kind of concensus.
So we'll make the zval ** == 'Z'.
Andi
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