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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:33:00 +0100 (CET)
To: Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Compatibility problems with PHP 5
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Schneider wrote:

> Marcus Boerger wrote:
> > If i get you right you want to have __clone() for PHP4, too right? But
> > that's already to late.
>
> That's what I was told when I was asking for ref on assignment for PHP4.
>   And now we have to go through this hassle for PHP5. I simply cannot
> believe noone thought of this problem when it was still possible to add
> it to PHP4 _and_ we stick to this just for the sake of a feature freeze.
> The function is so trivial (and IMHO so important) that being strict
> here seems plain wrong to me. After all it hinders migration to PHP5!

Just use an auto_prepend which sets the implicit_clone option... no
problems then anymore.

Derick