Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:56537 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 98385 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2011 21:06:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Nov 2011 21:06:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.160.170 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.160.170 mail-gy0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.160.170] ([209.85.160.170:36097] helo=mail-gy0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F1/A8-47904-4406DCE4 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:06:13 -0500 Received: by ghrr20 with SMTP id r20so2024978ghr.29 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:06:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=XcMtklRji8K/9BPz9Y5kyFb6jSzyegTqwXAFlkz0yTg=; b=OzLYEH/n2/pdvIx2mPHvQ0p0a+R7dtbK22A/UyT7b1/r0wu7NRSdVf+Jfhx1elTSU9 Z6SXuFpifKqRKKDURxxrx7QyOrAxemmr6Gem3+GjFy/fNG9pcrE2+mxQkwUgrlFuTBxd AFjyESCXwSNaSb3TeU1fcXAW4xTHZa3VJNts8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.155.170 with SMTP id j30mr36943219yhk.56.1322082369714; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.146.4.4 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:06:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4ECD4231.7070306@sugarcrm.com> References: <20111123015008.GA12933@panix.com> <20111123023108.GA172@panix.com> <4ECCB549.904@lsces.co.uk> <4ECCBC56.3050602@sugarcrm.com> <20111123141408.GA11940@panix.com> <20111123153100.GB13420@panix.com> <4ECD4231.7070306@sugarcrm.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:06:09 +0100 Message-ID: To: Stas Malyshev Cc: "RQuadling@gmail.com" , Daniel Convissor , PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 regression: non-existent sub-sub keys now have values From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> Unless I'm mistaken it seems that we have a clear and vicious BC break >> here, the kind of changes that are annoying to catch and does not > > No, we do not have a BC break here, we have a bugfix here that makes string > ops work consistently and only has a problem with completely broken code The fact that we have reports here showing code not working anymore because of this change tells me that it is a BC break. We can call it a bug fix but it still breaks code out there for no real benefit but edge case usages. We had this situation before, that does not help us. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org