Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76996 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25852 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2014 18:42:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Aug 2014 18:42:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=me@rouvenwessling.de; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=me@rouvenwessling.de; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain rouvenwessling.de designates 5.35.242.46 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: me@rouvenwessling.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 5.35.242.46 www.rouvenwessling.de Linux 2.6 Received: from [5.35.242.46] ([5.35.242.46:42285] helo=lvps5-35-242-46.dedicated.hosteurope.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BB/C4-30065-0BC63045 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:42:57 -0400 Received: by lvps5-35-242-46.dedicated.hosteurope.de (Postfix, from userid 5001) id 953361AF64004; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:42:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on www.rouvenwessling.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from rouvens-air.localdomain (xdsl-87-79-165-207.netcologne.de [87.79.165.207]) by lvps5-35-242-46.dedicated.hosteurope.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 553F169F0451; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:42:50 +0200 Cc: Levi Morrison , Ferenc Kovacs , Pierre Joye , PHP internals , Tjerk Meesters Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <7012ED6B-DA68-45BA-910C-760ED890A0D4@rouvenwessling.de> References: <137F7EB5-9A04-4780-A5F7-31089DEC959C@gmail.com> To: Chris Wright X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire From: me@rouvenwessling.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rouven_We=DFling?=) On 31 Aug 2014, at 20:34, Chris Wright wrote: > I have on occasion come across code that uses split(), more often than = not > as if it were explode() with a literal delimiter. >=20 > If ereg is to be removed (for which I am +1) does anyone have any > objections to making split() into an alias of explode()? This would = also be > consistent with the join() -> implode() alias. The big disadvantage to that would be, that those people who use more = advanced features will have a much harder time to figure out what went = wrong. I think this is better left alone. Best regards Rouven=