On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Lanre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM Jorg Sowa <jorg.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You don’t make any effort to help or provide constructive criticism; you > > just love to (incorrectly) tell everyone what they're doing wrong and how > > they should be doing it, without adding anything constructive to the > > conversation. > > > > Please limit to the arguments on the topic, not a person. > > > > The argument "Relying on the global mutable state is a bug" is completely > > valid and in most of the cases is the signal of bad design. And it has been > > already addressed in some of the functions, look at > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_3 for deprecations on rand > > functions. However, it's not so trivial to fix everything introducing > > compatibility-breaking changes. So it shouldn't be advised to add more of > > such functions. > > > > It still doesn't make sense. Even if we removed all the functions from my > list, the entire engine remains filled with global state. Internal > zend_class_entry instances, arginfo macros, the interned string table, > executor/compiler/scanner/each-extension globals, and so on—all contribute > to global state -- or bugs according to you and Larry, unless your stupid > argument applies only to languages under your control.
You really need to tone this langauge down. It's not the first time that this has been requested of you. Ad-hominems are not welcome here. I will point out the mailing list rules once more (only): https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/docs/mailinglist-rules.md cheers, Derick
