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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 21:35:03 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] __debugInfo()
From: happy.melon.wiki+gb@gmail.com (George Bond)

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On 3 February 2014 21:11, Crypto Compress <cryptocompress@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Meant output of var_dump is unexpected.


But that's not a B/C *break*, because users are explicitly instructed not
to write functions beginning with double underscores unless they want magic
functionality, and since this is *new* magic functionality
*no*correctly-constructed code will contain a function named
"__debugInfo()".
Any old code which does contain such a function is already explicitly
standards-defying, and so does not deserve any B/C maintenance.   That's
the whole point in reserving the whole namespace of
double-underscore-prefixed functions for future magic behaviour.

The fact that with this function developers can write
*new*weird/broken/counter-intuitive code like you write is certainly
valid.  But
it's not a B/C issue.

--G

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