Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:45762 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40672 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2009 17:28:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 2009 17:28:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:56636] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C0/22-54920-A4763DA4 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:28:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9CHScSs006372; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:28:39 +0200 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:28:38 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Mark Krenz cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20091012165734.GN5179@arvo.suso.org> Message-ID: References: <20091012154610.GJ5179@arvo.suso.org> <20091012160854.GK5179@arvo.suso.org> <4AD356D5.2020605@lerdorf.com> <20091012162227.GL5179@arvo.suso.org> <20091012165734.GN5179@arvo.suso.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why is ereg being deprecated? From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Mark Krenz wrote: > Again, this isn't a debate on which is better, I only want to STRONGLY > stress that I think its a big mistake to remove it in 6.0. The ereg library doesn't handle unicode so it can simply not work. > If nobody simply wants to do the work to make sure ereg is ready for PHP > 6 and unicode support, then you are not doing your job. I hate to call > it a job because I'm sure that you all enjoy doing PHP development, but > there are times when you have to bite the bullet and do the hard work > because its your responsibility to do so. Patches welcome. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org twitter: @derickr