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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 03:55:12 +0200
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To: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
Cc: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>, 
	"internals@lists.php.net" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Session: deprecating create_sid() method and add createSid()?
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>> >> > SessionHandler does not use new
>> >> > SessionUpdateTimestampHandlerInterface,
>> >> > so
>> >>
>> >> Um ... what's the point of having this interface? Nothing uses it.
>> >
>> >
>> > You may use it like
>> >
>> >  class MySessionHandler implements SessionHandlerInterface,
>> > SessionUpdateTimestampHandlerInterface
>> >
>> > I think the name is too long.
>> > Any suggestion?
>>
>> It is too long, and also useless. :)
>> You may, or you may not call it. If it's not enforced anywhere, nobody
>> needs it and nobody is going to use it. I suggest removing it, it's
>> pointless.
>
>
> It's intended for user use.
> This is the normal use of interface.

Eh ... I know how an interface is used, but an interface is supposed
to enforce a certain set of methods to be implemented.
If you're not enforcing usage of the interface itself (which we can't
do, because of BC), it becomes optional and therefore enfoces nothing.

Cheers,
Andrey.