Newsgroups: php.internals,php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20104 php.internals:20105 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 33324 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Nov 2005 22:27:27 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 33309 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2005 22:27:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Nov 2005 22:27:27 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.219.12.82 80-219-12-82.dclient.hispeed.ch Received: from ([80.219.12.82:20240] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id DB/06-07637-FC30D734 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:27:27 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net,Rasmus Lerdorf Message-ID: <437D0478.8090108@cschneid.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:30:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Andreas Korthaus , internals@lists.php.net, Ilia Alshanetsky References: <437B530A.5050105@prohost.org> <437CF6B4.5080207@web.de> <437CF943.7090800@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: <437CF943.7090800@lerdorf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 80.219.12.82 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider) Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Very few people converted to using {} so the argument about reading old > code doesn't really hold. If you go and grep through all the public > code out there, pretty much none of it uses {} for character offsets. I'd like to cite Andi here: "Regarding BC breakage. I'm not saying we shouldn't break BC in some cases, but in many cases, there's no big advantage (except for some people's warm and fuzzy feelings), and it can cause a lot of heart aches and disruption in PHP use. Migration is very important. " See for the full post. Please think twice before breaking BC light-heartedly. Thanks, - Chris