Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26572 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 71010 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Nov 2006 18:04:19 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70995 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2006 18:04:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Nov 2006 18:04:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=antony@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=antony@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: antony@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:20080] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4F/44-41479-F150A554 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:04:18 -0500 Received: (qmail 30945 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2006 18:02:47 -0000 Received: from internal.zend.office (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (10.1.1.1) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 14 Nov 2006 18:02:47 -0000 Message-ID: <455A051A.4090503@zend.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:04:10 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre CC: Stanislav Malyshev , Ilia Alshanetsky , RQuadling@googlemail.com, php-dev References: <4558E5E7.5040809@zend.com> <10845a340611140024l4902ea09q600a43c5018e819c@mail.gmail.com> <45597FA6.90808@zend.com> <3504EED4-37E2-4EE2-807E-9C3FEB81973F@prohost.org> <455A02B0.9010405@zend.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] fgets()/fgetss() BC break in HEAD From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal) On 11/14/2006 08:56 PM, Pierre wrote: > 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. I don't think the number of people relying on this behaviour changes the fact that it's a BC break. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal