Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30182 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30252 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Jun 2007 15:34:00 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30236 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2007 15:34:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 2007 15:34:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.146.180 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.146.180 wa-out-1112.google.com Received: from [209.85.146.180] ([209.85.146.180:43128] helo=wa-out-1112.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C5/02-08628-8EF51764 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:34:00 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id l24so729413waf for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Fu3FzK2HAgwDOeZNamynCcEhFs2NIf6LPklliFRGubmsc4R8TzOHb/w+3Fl9038JqPoav9ZDZOxyiAYzlRpYEvs0+PILTUPgK6+1lgwXj/X7uUcEA0LM8ZcPvkj2DA9ZOJlJgnwIfQDd7kmnmOx1MyJUSglvNePHrK8T7yt/uq4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=K+T0SiujsjcIyeRDFuHpsqgT5L5nqFncTmYhyH0gvlspLO++/sEWdZAZyOkAhPEPkE0+QsTqs0BDMcHJTIMzLFh7E/BNxounL3Tk42aHrJtaHj4NlszUhA4lOlwxk6yf0mhRgHKe64aiqcRuV/mNIq+XE5QULq6jbV+LazXJUVM= Received: by 10.114.160.1 with SMTP id i1mr1977969wae.1181835237486; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.180.9 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:33:57 +0200 To: "Rasmus Lerdorf" Cc: jani.taskinen@iki.fi, internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <46715887.4010306@lerdorf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <46715887.4010306@lerdorf.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre) On 6/14/07, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Jani Taskinen wrote: > > During Derick's talk about PHP 6 at PHP Vikinger, I started to wonder > > what exactly was the reasoning behind adding something like > > "unicode.semantics" option. Derick didn't remember, neither did I. > > > > Apparently it's another one of these "register_globals" or > > "magic_quotes_*" directives we'll remove in PHP 7? :D > > > > I mean, if PHP 6 is about unicode, why upgrade to PHP 6 and disable it? > > Just stay with PHP 5 then.. > > That's exactly why we need the toggle. We don't want to encourage > people to stay with an older version. We have enough trouble getting > people from 4 to 5 today, why build in an automatic excuse for people to > stay with 5 when all development moves to 6? If all their PHP 5-based > code works flawlessly in PHP 6, the adoption of PHP 6 will be quicker. As a side note, we had the same thoughts about php5, it did not work. --Pierre