Richard,
Really, this has been discussed so many times.
Backwards compatibility breakage accumulates. It's not a
binary. "If we break something we can break everything since it's
broken anyway" is not very convincing. The more you break the worse
things are, the more work you have to do in order to
migrate. Therefore, whatever breakage we have in any one version has
absolutely nothing at all whatsoever in any way shape or form in any
jurisdiction on this planet or otherwise to do with introducing
another BC break.
Zeev
At 12:19 14/11/2006, Richard Quadling wrote:
On 14/11/06, Antony Dovgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"It works this way since PHP3" means "it works right" even if there
was a bug in PHP3.
That's because thousands of people could rely on this behaviour
(which is, I repeat,
very well documented and pretty much expected).
And so why are we losing register_globals? For a LOT of code they work
and removing rg is sure as hell a BC for a lot of code. And we move
forward without it (along with magic_quotes and other dead wood). I
think this is just another one of those "yeah, well, we made a
decision a LONG time ago and now we are changing it" for a more
consistent approach.
Just because it was written down, doesn't mean it is right.
(Bible/koran/etc being perfect examples!)
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