Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:16793 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87480 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Jun 2005 16:55:37 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87465 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2005 16:55:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jun 2005 16:55:37 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.74.107.235 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([80.74.107.235:49865] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2 r(5656M)) with SMTP id 24/43-48311-60254B24 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:55:35 -0400 Received: (qmail 7348 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2005 16:55:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ANDI-NOTEBOOK.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jun 2005 16:55:31 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20050618095329.03fcaec0@localhost> X-Sender: andi@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:55:27 -0700 To: internals@lists.php.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: PHP 4.4 Breaks Backwards Compatibility From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/?q=node/view/205 We slightly broke BC for PHP 5 in order to get the reference stuff resolved. Now I remember (senile me) one of the reasons we didn't apply this fix to PHP 4. I suggest to hold the PHP 4.4 release until we see if/what can be done regarding the BC break. The problem is that this change was made, because we had to fix behavior which wasn't supposed to work in the first place and led to corruption. Andi