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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:44:46 +0300
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To: Park Framework <park.framework@gmail.com>
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	PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, Leigh <leight@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Improve PHP 7 serialization
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Park Framework
<park.framework@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not really, not because it is not good but because there is always be a
>> better one. We can't break format in every release.
>
> If you do not update in PHP 7 serialization method, it will never be
> updated, the default serialization in PHP 7 will be slow.
>
> To maintain backward compatibility, can implement support method calls
> on primitive types, new algorithms for serialization to be called only
> in the new API.
>
> $var->serialize()
> $var->unserialize()
>
> What do you think about this?

Not changing the serialize() format doesn't mean that other formats
can't be introduced via extensions. Though, I too would like to have
more of them available by default.

Cheers,
Andrey.