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Subject: removal of allow_call_time_pass_reference
From: fschaper@intux.org (Florian Schaper)

Regarding backward compatibility option "allow_call_time_pass_reference" 
one will find in the php.ini:
"... future versions of PHP/Zend are likely not to support it. ...".

A customer of mine relies heavily uppon that feature however, be it 
"wise" to do so or not. He is now a little confused as to how much time 
he has until support in aspect to backwards compatibility is removed.

What I'd like to now is if there is a standard policy how language 
support regarding backwards compatibility is handled.

How long will there be support for deprecated Features like 
register_globals or allow_call_time_pass_reference? Will they get lost 
on a whim during a major version change? After all I still see support 
for those in php5.

./regards

Florian