Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:36629 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 28688 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2008 22:32:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Mar 2008 22:32:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; 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: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:64466] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F4/E5-27384-0602CE74 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:32:02 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:32:28 +0200 Received: from [192.168.16.84] ([192.168.16.84]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:32:25 -0700 Message-ID: <47EC205A.6050705@zend.com> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:31:54 -0700 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Pena CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_Schl=FCter?= , internals@lists.php.net References: <1206536686.5423.13.camel@felipe> <1206574472.11056.29.camel@goldfinger> <46ccd1ab0803261943v4e6cb80k14e02c729c077e27@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46ccd1ab0803261943v4e6cb80k14e02c729c077e27@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Mar 2008 22:32:25.0680 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E956500:01C8905A] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Backporting to 5_3 From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) >> What exactly does that change? > > $a = "foo"; list($b) = $a; var_dump($b); This is weird... I wouldn't go as far as saying nobody uses it - since experience shows there's somebody somewhere using any weird combination of PHP features imaginable - but it's definitely a strange code. Even though, I think since it's functionality drop, we may want to wait with it, unless it doesn't work anyway (e.g. produces segfaults in some cases). -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com