Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:42007 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58413 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2008 14:39:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Nov 2008 14:39:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sean@caedmon.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sean@caedmon.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain caedmon.net from 64.15.79.181 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sean@caedmon.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.15.79.181 iconoclast.caedmon.net Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [64.15.79.181] ([64.15.79.181:38202] helo=iconoclast.caedmon.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 54/73-35761-818C6294 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:39:21 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iconoclast.caedmon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B561E000F; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:39:14 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at iconoclast.caedmon.net Received: from iconoclast.caedmon.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RTIeZAb7i+hM; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:39:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.8.0.2] (sarcasm.vpn [10.8.0.2]) by iconoclast.caedmon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982B21E000C; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:39:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_Schl=FCter?= , Stanislav Malyshev , Felipe Pena , Dmitry Stogov , PHP Internals Message-ID: <84286C49-9776-478E-A11A-6DE789468AE9@caedmon.net> To: Lukas Kahwe Smith In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:39:08 -0500 References: <4900DB81.4000805@zend.com> <4900E150.1010607@dynom.nl> <49018FC3.90302@gmail.com> <1224854888.19390.89.camel@goldfinger.johannes.nop> <490609A1.7090400@gravitonic.com> <1225199800.878.0.camel@localhost> <3F3445975B55414BB4A214B32E178657@pc> <4A4FE9BC-F000-4AEE-A68C-8EFEA9DCD154@pooteeweet.org> <4910D3E5.4020406@zend.com> <237D5067-10C6-4D25-8CCF-FEF9FE44F6F6@googlemail.com> <1225973406.5465.18.camel@felipe> <4925F83E.2060609@zend.com> <1227231361.3043.9.camel@goldfinger.johannes.nop> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] array_key_exists BC break From: sean@caedmon.net (Sean Coates) > Hmm, I really think we should simply maintain BC 100% but using the > new parameter parsing API and then really think this through for the > next bigger release (presumably PHP 6.0) and come up with a set of > interfaces for objects that allow them to more sensibly work with > functions. FWIW, I agree here. Yes, it's "wrong" now, but BC breaks like this in point releases upset a lot of people and discourage early adoption. I'd much prefer to see this in 6.0, especially if we can raise E_DEPRECATED in the meantime. S