Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:23673 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61764 invoked by uid 1010); 26 May 2006 01:06:20 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61747 invoked from network); 26 May 2006 01:06:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 May 2006 01:06:20 -0000 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.249.82.196 wx-out-0102.google.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([66.249.82.196:47362] helo=wx-out-0102.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 17/03-17316-C8456744 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 21:06:20 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id t10so973756wxc for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:06:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UE+WqtO0r/BozQLNgkBCgQEY37u4puFtMl7/xPzj7ppMrCztCCRTjg62Uzrkl5cflBdsXRLKn71nMpBKIi0Iehiqf7U6ltT2EFmwzaNm+8vWxlWE//1WQoaEA8nVK/rToE0AxIYcvGXnYAvDHcsP5SLnB4oK44zeTGwjaMlPjrs= Received: by 10.70.92.20 with SMTP id p20mr34394wxb; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.94.5 with HTTP; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 03:06:16 +0200 To: "Alan Knowles" Cc: "Christian Schneider" , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <44765279.8000601@akbkhome.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <138663365.20060514205903@marcus-boerger.de> <1147708994.14148.23.camel@notebook.local> <16710545416.20060515202714@marcus-boerger.de> <1147721541.14148.47.camel@notebook.local> <4468DB43.1020005@emini.dk> <7.0.1.0.2.20060515194051.02b32ef8@zend.com> <1148496966.19173.79.camel@notebook.local> <454303585.20060524213714@marcus-boerger.de> <44765279.8000601@akbkhome.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] planning future BC Breaks - was Re: [PHP-DEV] fatal static call in php 6.0? From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre) On 5/26/06, Alan Knowles wrote: > Can we start concentrating on finding a real solution to BC breaks > rather than throwing them out there and everyone complaining? The most important point to discuss for any BC break is about why introduce it. Purity and OO compliance are not good reasons, imho. > define(php5) { > stuff that breaks in php6 > } > define(php6) { > stuff that doesnt work in PHP5 > } Is it not the idea behind the preprocessor proposal? (see todo wiki). --Pierre