On 14-Nov-06, at 3:34 AM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
It seems utterly ridiculous to return maxlen-1.
Whilst this is sure as hell a BC, it should work "properly". If I ask
for 10, I want 10. I wouldn't have asked for 10 otherwise. Having to
know the "magic" to get things to work is plainly bad magic.
It always returned length-1, manual says length-1, so suddenly in
version 5.2.1 it starts returning length instead. And now imagine
somebody who tries to use this function in his scripts. He should
start adding version checks to each invocation of this function or
what? Doesn't seem very nice behavior to me.
The comparison Tony made was between <=5.X and PHP 6, I do not
believe anyone is suggesting to modify the 5.2.x behavior.
Ilia Alshanetsky
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