Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26831 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67261 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Dec 2006 15:18:12 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67246 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2006 15:18:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2006 15:18:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=zeev@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=zeev@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: zeev@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] ([212.25.124.162:45428] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 79/1E-13900-F8038754 for ; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:18:11 -0500 Message-ID: <79.1E.13900.F8038754@pb1.pair.com> Received: (qmail 5679 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2006 15:16:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO zeev-notebook.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2006 15:16:04 -0000 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:17:34 +0200 To: Stefan Esser Cc: In-Reply-To: <4577FC87.7090109@hardened-php.net> References: <0c60b01d19ec7e242ade31e29120ee27@gravitonic.com> <4577FC87.7090109@hardened-php.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.2: Serialization patch From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski) At 13:35 07/12/2006, Stefan Esser wrote: >Guys, > >why can't you simply introduce a new variable type for serialized >strings like uppercase S: >There is absolutely no need for breaking backward compatibility. I can't think of a single reason not to use a new type like you suggest. Can anybody think of any drawbacks? Zeev