On 14/11/06, Ilia Alshanetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Absolutely. This should be a V6 tidy-up. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
