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Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 19:25:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ereg deprecation?
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 18:20 +0100, Mark Skilbeck wrote:
> > I think make no sense to keep it deprecated.
> >
> > Here's a patch for undeprecate ext/ereg in 5_3 and trunk:
> > http://felipe.ath.cx/diff/undeprecate-ereg.diff
> >
> > Any objection? If no, I'll commit it in soon.
> >
> 
> Why does it make no sense? It was clearly deprecated for a reason.

The main reason was that PHP 6 was Unicode and ereg ca't be made working
with Unicode. That reason is gone (for now)
(but there are others, see my other mail)

johannes