Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19338 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44684 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Oct 2005 13:30:36 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44667 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2005 13:30:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Oct 2005 13:30:36 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 84.56.25.242 dslb-084-056-025-242.pools.arcor-ip.net Received: from ([84.56.25.242:9417] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 07/C6-54476-A7231434 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:30:35 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 15:30:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20051003153029.1f72c634@localhost.localdomain> References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.14 (GTK+ 2.6.10; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 84.56.25.242 Subject: Re: $ref =& $this; From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre) On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 15:09:22 +0200 (CEST) derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote: > I think we should prevent people from writing syntax like this, as it > is not obvious what is going to happen. I agree too. The question is only about how to prevent users to do that without breaking "everything" out there. I would like to go with a notice for the next stable release (both 5.0.x and 5.1.0) and see when we can make it as a fatal error, something like 5.2 or so. HEAD can keep the error as it was. --Pierre