On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Kazuo Oishi <ka...@o-ishi.jp> wrote:
> Hi, > > >> IMO, improving it (generate better semi-unique ID) is not important > >> enoungh to introduce unnecessary BC break. (Why returning string length > >> is changed?) > > > > It cannot not produce unique ID by default as name "uniqid()" implies. > > Reason is described in the RFC. Please read RFC because it's the > > official proposal. > > I had read it, of course. But I could not understand why you chose BC > break way. > > Now, I understand your intention to change default value of > "more_entropy" despite of BC break. You do want to change the default > behavior of uniqid. > > But I cannot agree. > > -- > Kazuo Oishi > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Full ACK on what Kazuo said. I use `uniqid()` daily in my test suites, even new ones (not much else), and introducing the `.` everywhere will just cause issues. Changing string length may also break everything. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
