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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New flame
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Maybe we should decide if this a show stopper or not. From my 

We had this functionality in 5.x. People used it. There's no reason to 
drop it except for patch authors not implementing it.

I think it's just wrong to submit patch dropping significant chunk of 
PHP engine functionality, and then deciding - bah, I don't feel like 
fixing it, so let's just ignore it as if it never existed. Remember, 
most of PHP users - and even more so for non-US users - don't read 
internals@ and know nothing about it. You can't just post a note in a 
disused lavatory^W^Winternal developers list and expect all millions of 
users to be informed. We don't really want to be the Vogons for PHP 
users, do we?

 > understanding we still do not have any example of this being used in the
 > wild ..

It is used by Japanese users, please look at the archives.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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