Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49143 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26114 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2010 10:45:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jul 2010 10:45:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=h.reindl@thelounge.net; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=h.reindl@thelounge.net; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain thelounge.net designates 195.34.141.34 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: h.reindl@thelounge.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 195.34.141.34 mail.thelounge.net Windows 98 (1) Received: from [195.34.141.34] ([195.34.141.34:40765] helo=mail.thelounge.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C0/F5-13626-0E51C4C4 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:45:53 -0400 Received: from srv-rhsoft.rhsoft.net (local.rhsoft.net [84.113.45.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.thelounge.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DF01D4; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:45:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C4C15DD.2020809@thelounge.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:45:49 +0200 Organization: the lounge interactive design User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100721 Remi/fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karoly Negyesi CC: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=7F780279; url=http://arrakis.thelounge.net/gpg/h.reindl_thelounge.net.pub.txt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Please reconsider supporting PHP 5.2 From: h.reindl@thelounge.net (Reindl Harald) Am 25.07.2010 11:44, schrieb Karoly Negyesi: >>> Where previously the function would accept the by-value argument, a >>> fatal error is now emitted. > >> Not sure about this one. Do you have an example please? > > Erm, you do realized that I copied that from the handbook page? Example: > > function a(&$x) {} > a(NULL); > ?> > PHP Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in > /var/www/u/sites/all/modules/awesomerelationships/x.php on line 4 Thanks god that tis happens to force developers to work clean NULL is not a reference so th real error os that such things ever worked > Extensions. APC to this day does not have a stable release for PHP > 5.3. Neither has XCache. I am not even sure how do you imagine > *anyone* much less everyone upgrading to 5.3 with a production site > without a stable code cache...? That is not a php-problem and http://eaccelerator.net/ works > Also note xdebug has a PHP 5.3 compatible release for less than a month. the question is not how long, the question is does it have