Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30977 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79790 invoked by uid 1010); 16 Jul 2007 14:14:16 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79770 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2007 14:14:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Jul 2007 14:14:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:39029] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A1/E2-62403-53D7B964 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:14:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6GEE0oN015158; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:14:00 +0200 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:13:59 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Pierre cc: Andi Gutmans , Ilia Alshanetsky , jani.taskinen@iki.fi, PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648191@us-ex1.zend.net> <54C4340A-D9EA-4B5A-B39C-B55B29B1B3BC@prohost.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648193@us-ex1.zend.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote: > On 7/16/07, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > Even in PHP 6 I am not sure it's a good idea. > > As far as I know, Jani is referring to PHP6 only. And it was "decided" > in the "php6 notes". Unfortunately that is not true. It's only the title of the agenda point, it's not part of the "conclusions". > I'm in favour to remove ereg in php6, and the sooner we decide the > better. Yes, I agree. > Users will know about this change and will finally understand > the PCRE superiority and why they should use it instead, and today. However, users should learn how to use the new regexp engine as that will support Unicode :) regards, Derick