Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15620 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30026 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Mar 2005 06:07:10 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30011 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2005 06:07:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gmail.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Mar 2005 06:07:10 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.184.196 wproxy.gmail.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([64.233.184.196:36748] helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD r(5268)) with SMTP id A2/43-51637-E0CF4424 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:07:10 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so879267wra for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:07:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=oxvxf2hnkNuHi1EtKG+qmzZDBMUp/NIHl69vDXMc6Uydx4Pwt6f2zEFv+yru2trMR9R16sW17bLaHTtlef13LpVpgB7hEongnbuJkGcQo639oSvBDddlUDOC/0XZLQc+a0161MH3W5uIJrfukg4f8VSIgnQhi+8JHJSbAWqw09g= Received: by 10.54.4.8 with SMTP id 8mr761507wrd; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:07:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.44.57 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:07:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4e89b42605032522077bc1916b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:07:08 -0500 Reply-To: Wez Furlong To: Edin Kadribasic Cc: "Thies C. Arntzen" , Jani Taskinen , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <95fbf52493d111c1264ba6cce8d48c5f@emini.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4e89b42605032516474df603db@mail.gmail.com> <95fbf52493d111c1264ba6cce8d48c5f@emini.dk> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] pdo: patch to make leading colon unneeded for bound variables without breaking BC. From: kingwez@gmail.com (Wez Furlong) On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:13:54 +0100, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2005, at 1:47, Wez Furlong wrote: > > > There are releases on pecl.php.net, and there are (a few) people > > running these in production. In addition, it's been advertised as > > working this way for over a year. > > > > So, it is important to preserve the current behaviour when this patch > > is applied (will do so this weekend; need to catch up on a lot of > > things first). > > Hehe, this is too funny. Last time you dismissed my BC concerns when I > said we should remove ":" now by saying something along the lines, we > can always make things less strict. If this does not make sense now its > because it never did :) I've had code running using ':' since before this topic was first raised. I don't see what's funny about it; the fact is that there is code alive using : prefixes; we can't simply stop supporting it. Thies' patch is simply "making things less strict", and that is not something I had ruled out, just a decision I wanted to defer. --Wez.