Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Very few people converted to using {} so the argument about reading old code doesn't really hold. If you go and grep through all the public code out there, pretty much none of it uses {} for character offsets.
I'd like to cite Andi here: "Regarding BC breakage. I'm not saying we shouldn't break BC in some cases, but in many cases, there's no big advantage (except for some people's warm and fuzzy feelings), and it can cause a lot of heart aches and disruption in PHP use. Migration is very important. " See <http://news.php.net/php.internals/19415> for the full post. Please think twice before breaking BC light-heartedly. Thanks, - Chris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
