On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Andrei Zmievski <and...@gravitonic.com> wrote:
> SORT_STRING can only reliably deal with strings - its behavior on non-string > type is basically broken. Unless we agree that PHP is Tcl (strings are the > only type), then SORT_REGULAR makes much more sense to me, and evidently > others. > > If you really have a huge problem with BC, perhaps we could leave the > default behavior as SORT_STRING for 5.2.x, but it definitely needs to be > SORT_REGULAR for 5.3/6. As I said earlier, the function is never supposed to be used with objects. Therefore, we cannot declare it to be broken, and any change to the behavior anyway leads to a huge BC break. I got a report that claims the reporter's real-world application behaves strangely with the latest release candidate. That said, I'm not really against making SORT_REGULAR default for later versions than 5.2.x as long as *appropriate notices* are provided, while I strongly disagree for 5.2.x. Moriyoshi > > -Andrei > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
