Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:54622 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 15094 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2011 09:14:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 2011 09:14:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.26.186 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.26.186 c2beaomr08.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.26.186] ([213.123.26.186:9882] helo=mail.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C7/F2-31518-973E84E4 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:14:34 -0400 Received: from host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com (EHLO _10.0.0.4_) ([81.138.11.136]) by c2beaomr08.btconnect.com with ESMTP id DXV32832; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:12:32 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4E48E2FF.90200@lsces.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:12:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SUSE/2.0.14-2.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP Internals References: <4E48121A.3090007@sugarcrm.com> <4E48134E.4030708@sugarcrm.com> <4E481695.6040900@php.net> <4E483804.7070009@sugarcrm.com> <4E484037.2080107@php.net> <4E4843B0.70605@php.net> <4E48D6E7.2000203@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Fair-1, source=Queried, refid=tid=0001.0A0B0301.4E48E300.001D, actions=tag X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/50, refid=2.7.2:2011.8.15.75116:17:7.586, ip=81.138.11.136, rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_900_999, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2beaomr08.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B020A.4E48E376.0086:SCFSTAT14830815,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE]strn(case)cmp supporting a negative length as its third paramter From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Laruence wrote: > I totally agree with you about bc break things, > > but actully I don't think this proposal will bring a big bc break, > it's a new approach , but not a big change, > > I am meaning that the old codes can work fine because rarely codes > depends on a negative length. > > do you agree? No Having been caught several times when subtle 'little' changes like this have caused a problem, I'd rather avoid the problem ... since a better alternative does already exist? ( And if you must top post PLEASE switch off quoting altogether especially when it does not honour the 'sig' stripping ... ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php