Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:48038 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26818 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2010 13:30:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Apr 2010 13:30:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:54483] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id ED/8D-63467-40EFECB4 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:30:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23109DE2AF; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:30:41 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.derickrethans.nl To: Ryan Panning cc: internals@lists.php.net, Stanislav Malyshev , Adi Nita In-Reply-To: <4BCEFC93.7010508@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4BCE44B8.6060600@zend.com> <4BCEFC93.7010508@gmail.com> 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] A critique of PHP 6 From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Ryan Panning wrote: > > > 4. PARAMETER ORDER. > > Two letters: BC. > > Changing variable order in an existing function is a big fat BC break. And > > if we put such a bomb into a new version, what would be the incentive for > > people to use it? So that apps would have to be shipped in 2 versions, for > > the old php and the new php? > > Is this something that could be fixed if it's moved to a namespace? The new > "alias" can have the "correct" order but original function can have the old > order. No, it would me having two implementations. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug