Hi,
A while ago someone on IRC suggested that it might be a good idea to add
"public" to PHP 4.x for forward compatibility. I brought it up again on
IRC yesterday and several prominent members of the php core community
said it would be a good idea to add to the 4.4 branch.
The patch seems to be a 3 liner in the zend_language_scanner.l file.
Atleast that worked for me. Maybe there is a better/cleaner solution,
but either way its not going to have drastic technical implications. Its
mainly a political decision to make.
I think its a good idea to have, to make it somewhat possible to prepare
for the PHP5 E_STRICT world, while still developing PHP4 compatible
code. I could for example see this help increase the PHP5 adoption
inside PEAR, since this would allow us to make some packages E_STRICT
compatible without throwing out PHP4 compatibility (inside PEAR we
consider increased major PHP versions to be a BC break, but not minor
versions).
regards,
Lukas
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