Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:54852 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69191 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2011 09:36:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Aug 2011 09:36:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; 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] ([82.113.146.227:54690] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4D/C3-48631-B06C45E4 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:36:12 -0400 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC476E202D; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:36:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:36:04 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky To: Ferenc Kovacs cc: "alan@akbkhome.com" , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1314115682.2635.98.camel@guybrush> <4E545A6C.60704@akbkhome.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released! From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:57 AM, alan@akbkhome.com wrote: > > It might have been better to have waited for the is_a() fix to get sorted > > out.. - It's a very annoying BC break (changes the documented behaviour), > > and now it means we need 4.3.9 in a few more days. > > > > Let me know if you need help testing / applying etc.. > > > > from what I understand, this won't be changed, as the current behavior > is correct, the old was a bug: It is also a BC break! Yes, it should be fixed, but only in 5.4. This kind of little changes is what makes people look at PHP as a joke! Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug