Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:70685 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39743 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2013 23:35:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Dec 2013 23:35:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.241 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.241 imap3-1.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from [198.187.29.241] ([198.187.29.241:37812] helo=imap3-1.ox.registrar-servers.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F0/33-32483-43E8FA25 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:35:17 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293E02A007B; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:35:13 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap3.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from oxmail.registrar-servers.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap3.ox.registrar-servers.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lRH71yima61U; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:35:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (unknown [94.13.99.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ECB8D2A0053; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:35:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <52AF8E29.3020400@ajf.me> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:35:05 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tjerk Meesters , Rowan Collins CC: PHP Internals References: <52AA1649.2090601@ajf.me> <52AAA1EA.7030106@marc-bennewitz.de> <52AF45CC.10604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PROPOSAL] Alphanumeric decrement From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 16/12/13 23:33, Tjerk Meesters wrote: > > I would love to completely eradicate it, but I also realize that there's > existing code using it, such as: > > for ($class = 'A1'; $class <= 'A4'; ++$class); > > It might be hard to find the places where such code is being used, so I > figured it made sense to have a deprecation period instead. > Before writing the -- support patch, I wrote a patch to remove ++ support. There were a few tests that relied on the feature which required rewriting, so I'm quite worried about what'd happen if we removed it. Maybe in 6.0? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/