Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-07 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi, Joe Watkins wrote: Afternoon Andrea, A case can be made that the binary cast might at some point do something: "(binary) $ustring" There is no case whatever for the literal b prefix, it will *never* have a function if we are not changing the default string representation. I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-07 Thread Joe Watkins
Afternoon Andrea, A case can be made that the binary cast might at some point do something: "(binary) $ustring" There is no case whatever for the literal b prefix, it will *never* have a function if we are not changing the default string representation. If we do adopt a literal prefi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-07 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi, Joe Watkins wrote: Morning Andrea, Who is widely deploying something that does absolutely nothing ? PHAR uses (binary), or so Pedro's email says. The only reason to keep it would be that we are going to change the default representation, as pointed out we're not. If we were

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-06 Thread Joe Watkins
Morning Andrea, Who is widely deploying something that does absolutely nothing ? The only reason to keep it would be that we are going to change the default representation, as pointed out we're not. This cannot have been left in for considered reasons, it was just forgotten about. C