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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:50:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released!
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:57 AM, alan@akbkhome.com <alan@akbkhome.com> w=
rote:
>> > It might have been better to have waited for the is_a() fix to get sor=
ted
>> > out.. - It's a very annoying BC break (changes the documented behaviou=
r),
>> > 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!
>

agree with keeping the BC as much as possible, but from the responses
from the others (Dmitry, Stas, Zeev) and the nature of the change
(changing the undefined behavior of the function) and the fact that it
is already out there (and changing this back and releasing a new
version now or later would be even more wrong) my guess is that we
will keep the new behavior.

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Ferenc Kov=C3=A1cs
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu