Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47077 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80432 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2010 22:24:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Mar 2010 22:24:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=markus@fischer.name; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=markus@fischer.name; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain fischer.name from 62.179.121.31 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: markus@fischer.name X-Host-Fingerprint: 62.179.121.31 viefep11-int.chello.at Solaris 10 (beta) Received: from [62.179.121.31] ([62.179.121.31:6131] helo=viefep11-int.chello.at) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A0/4C-16552-F7E3C8B4 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:24:00 -0500 Received: from edge05.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.212]) by viefep11-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.8.01.02.00 201-2260-120-20100118) with ESMTP id <20100301222356.UPHQ27557.viefep11-int.chello.at@edge05.upcmail.net> for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 23:23:56 +0100 Received: from genuine.home ([213.47.135.90]) by edge05.upcmail.net with edge id nyPu1d04k1xBXQ505yPvd6; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:23:56 +0100 X-SourceIP: 213.47.135.90 Received: from insanity.home ([192.168.1.50]) by genuine.home with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1NmE1q-0000vp-A5 for internals@lists.php.net; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:23:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4B8C3E7E.6000803@fischer.name> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:23:58 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <3B776C158D8E4D8D8DEB11A9860B6734@pc> In-Reply-To: <3B776C158D8E4D8D8DEB11A9860B6734@pc> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=C2272BD0; url=http://markus.fischer.name/my_public_key.txt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -18 X-Spam-Level: - X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "genuine.home", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On 01.03.2010 21:35, Stan Vassilev wrote: > The gettype() documentation warns people that the returned string is "subject to change". Why is there a function that's subject to change in the API? Probably because of the unicode stuff, might suddenly return "unicode" (still true? don't know) or "binary" what was "string" before .. but this is untested theory right now, but that's the kind of scenario they mean here. [...] Content analysis details: (-1.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 1.4 RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD Bulk email fingerprint (Gecko faked) found -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.4311] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=briQ3unXdou/UD5hUnelJ1+IJBHtIS2ZtgCk1j4TXSI= c=1 sm=0 a=C5HJ7vb43EMA:10 a=fZGOzlYc_l11c5D_51UA:9 a=A-CAaT5fnOnaDxA3xk22v4CulKAA:4 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scary note for gettype() in docs From: markus@fischer.name (Markus Fischer) On 01.03.2010 21:35, Stan Vassilev wrote: > The gettype() documentation warns people that the returned string is "subject to change". Why is there a function that's subject to change in the API? Probably because of the unicode stuff, might suddenly return "unicode" (still true? don't know) or "binary" what was "string" before .. but this is untested theory right now, but that's the kind of scenario they mean here. HTH