Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20397 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 623 invoked by uid 1010); 25 Nov 2005 13:21:47 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 608 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2005 13:21:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2005 13:21:47 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 70.85.46.36 unknown Received: from ([70.85.46.36:35166] helo=prohost.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 4E/51-56276-AEF07834 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:21:47 -0500 Received: (qmail 11993 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2005 13:21:44 -0000 Received: from prohost.org (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (70.85.46.36) by prohost.org with SMTP; 25 Nov 2005 13:21:44 -0000 Message-ID: <43870FE6.7040609@prohost.org> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:21:42 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sascha Schumann CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <7.0.0.16.2.20051124161240.0573e640@zend.com> <20051125034515.6fefa4e2@localhost.localdomain> <43867C6C.2010209@prohost.org> <20051125040950.26305e08@localhost.localdomain> <43869FC5.4060708@lerdorf.com> <20051125075501.79718ee6@localhost.localdomain> <1132903004.9936.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1086017308.20051125091648@marcus-boerger.de> <438709AC.3020808@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) Sascha Schumann wrote: > I've seen that text. It is hidden at the end of a paragraph > not related to the topic at all (something about class > constants). As such it is totally inadequate. There should > be a prominent point in the release announcement about > reserved symbols. Does this include anytime a new function/class is added we need to make a prominent notice about since it reserves some name space? Bottom line there is a problem and we need a fix for it. One solution that has been suggested is to revert the date class and release 5.1.1, but this means we pretty much deny ourselves the ability to have a native "Date" class in PHP. Is this really the only fix we can come up with? Ilia