Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31056 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52258 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Jul 2007 16:01:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52241 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2007 16:01:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jul 2007 16:01:33 -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 209.85.146.177 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: 209.85.146.177 wa-out-1112.google.com Received: from [209.85.146.177] ([209.85.146.177:35034] helo=wa-out-1112.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9A/50-43958-B593E964 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:01:33 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id l24so287430waf for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:00:56 -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=l2j2Ieu7iuNrhsE4BJglET0OPCPjFuGwpf2SG0wcmzQOGrxkhjFDwgRLn2ubR4Q2oSbaedrvmVgOmxA2Y4Uo7l38rmKmsvMof++95fEOTG0r0MicBf2CwyJrDMd16lSbMv/+/9UHFyMl7Ng+odecNe7dFNua0gqW+E01oE79Mao= 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=eDlx7Z2linuln6Taxi2RJ75Fj0gLmBXmGTd2/k/KI+WdR6jf4X03NKNPUx7MldCyq7BvMSdb5GPh9lfl/kk0fSktfQAgUXmtcGzxxabZvrJyjV9w7POnA+ufu4eQVZCQGL4oD14f6t0IsdXdSLqsp73dX09PkAIzDMPbJ5nDtug= Received: by 10.114.13.1 with SMTP id 1mr1607028wam.1184774456085; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.180.9 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:00:55 +0200 To: "Zeev Suraski" Cc: "Lukas Kahwe Smith" , "Andi Gutmans" , "Ilia Alshanetsky" , jani.taskinen@iki.fi, internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20070718084427.0e9a4300@zend.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648191@us-ex1.zend.net> <54C4340A-D9EA-4B5A-B39C-B55B29B1B3BC@prohost.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648193@us-ex1.zend.net> <469B7FB1.1070507@pooteeweet.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648290@us-ex1.zend.net> <7.0.1.0.2.20070718023255.0dc0eed0@zend.com> <469DFDEC.6020903@pooteeweet.org> <7.0.1.0.2.20070718084427.0e9a4300@zend.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre) On 7/18/07, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Well I don't think it really diminishes, but I agree that 1+1 is > maybe 1.9 and not 2. On the other hand, if you remember that > perception is everything (or at least very important), 1+1 can easily > be perceived as 3, and in a negative sense. Exactly. And many people lost much more time to hunt down "smaller" things like the "Indirect modification of overloaded property.." or the numerous other annoying (but sometimes required) changes. And those means 1+1+1+1=2^32/F* php for most of them. A dropped extension, function or feature, when known (and done) soon enough, is by far easier (planning is possible, migration, etc.). --Pierre