Hi Rasmus: could we well docuemnt this(changelog) to avoding such bad thing happen?
and sure, I agree and know what you are worried, also I am very respect you . so here is the thing, if I can't get your support, I think I should darw back the proposal. thanks 2011/8/15 Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com>: > On 08/15/2011 01:51 AM, Laruence wrote: >> Hi Lester: >> I totally agree with you about bc break things, >> >> but actully I don't think this proposal will bring a big bc break, >> it's a new approach , but not a big change, >> >> I am meaning that the old codes can work fine because rarely codes >> depends on a negative length. >> >> do you agree? > > I agree that this is not a "big" BC break. However, my argument is that > small BC breaks like this are actually much worse than "big" BC breaks. > A big and obvious BC break is usually easy to deal with. An accumulation > of small subtle BC breaks that rarely hit you and then only on certain > input strings, those are the ones that kill you. > > -Rasmus > -- Laruence Xinchen Hui http://www.laruence.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
