Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26571 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69056 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Nov 2006 17:57:00 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69041 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2006 17:57:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Nov 2006 17:57:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=good Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 64.233.184.235 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: good X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.184.235 wr-out-0506.google.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [64.233.184.235] ([64.233.184.235:43258] helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 31/04-41479-A630A554 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:00 -0500 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i32so701793wra for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:56:56 -0800 (PST) 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=XP6JzL/5AGgWuu/y/LGbt0hf77wnFOXUGfNTgP1hDd12UuFNdRCz8CPPgsRMNj6h81HqjbJgQNwPkaBb2XClfcNJ4slG0uB+tzUaMgVMTGyUGzigqyFXhUMfpnsVDFh3nhNgf/bXaMyZyzuk7OTH5vlPIc6wCONPNtHPlYov/gg= Received: by 10.78.203.13 with SMTP id a13mr1251532hug.1163527014894; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:56:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.137.6 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:56:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:56:54 +0100 To: "Stanislav Malyshev" Cc: "Ilia Alshanetsky" , RQuadling@googlemail.com, "Antony Dovgal" , php-dev In-Reply-To: <455A02B0.9010405@zend.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4558E5E7.5040809@zend.com> <10845a340611140024l4902ea09q600a43c5018e819c@mail.gmail.com> <45597FA6.90808@zend.com> <3504EED4-37E2-4EE2-807E-9C3FEB81973F@prohost.org> <455A02B0.9010405@zend.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] fgets()/fgetss() BC break in HEAD From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre) Hello, On 11/14/06, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > The comparison Tony made was between <=5.X and PHP 6, I do not believe > > anyone is suggesting to modify the 5.2.x behavior. > > Yes, I noticed later it's PHP 6, but it does not change a thing - it's > still totally unnecessary BC break for the sake of meaningless purism. > It adds nothing to the language or functionality and would break a lot > of code. It should be fixed to be compatible with previous versions. I have to agree, it is purely a cosmetic change. "Renaming" the argument can make the purists happier. However, as a counter argument, a quick search in codesearch/koders show that very few people rely on this behavior. --Pierre