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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:28:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New flame
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 16.06.2008, at 22:04, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

> 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.
>

right .. so it was mentioned .. show us the code.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org