Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:45784 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81102 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2009 19:25:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 2009 19:25:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mark@suso.org; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mark@arvo.suso.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain arvo.suso.org from 66.244.94.5 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mark@arvo.suso.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.244.94.5 arvo.suso.org Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [66.244.94.5] ([66.244.94.5:59837] helo=arvo.suso.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 82/CA-54920-39283DA4 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:25:07 -0400 Received: by arvo.suso.org (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 05BBE88060; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:25:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:25:03 +0000 To: Tomas Kuliavas Cc: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20091012192503.GU5179@arvo.suso.org> 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> <4AD36D8D.60806@gmail.com> <50994.4e3f9432.1255372442.nsm@avilys.eik.lt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50994.4e3f9432.1255372442.nsm@avilys.eik.lt> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why is ereg being deprecated? From: mark@suso.org (Mark Krenz) On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:34:02PM GMT, Tomas Kuliavas [tokul@users.sourceforge.net] said the following: > > preg_quote() and preg_last_error() are support functions. They are used > together with other pcre functions. You double some search results. > > If you have to support something, it is not about statistics. Even 1% is > important. Before you use statistics against something, remember that > statistics can be used against you too. Everyone of us is one in seven > billion. Any person is just 0,000000014% in Earth statistics. > Thank you Tomas, of all the posts replying to me so far, this one supports my point the most, even if its not meant too. There are only so many people on the PHP-DEV list and obviously you guys know what you are doing with PHP, but that leaves out pretty much all the people that use it. I'm trying to represent those people and voice our opinion. -- Mark S. Krenz IT Director Suso Technology Services, Inc. http://suso.org/