Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77909 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 74183 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2014 07:06:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Oct 2014 07:06:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.214 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.214] ([217.147.176.214:45742] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7C/50-06457-CE97B345 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 03:06:21 -0400 Received: (qmail 7533 invoked by uid 89); 13 Oct 2014 07:06:17 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 7523, pid: 7530, t: 0.1525s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.8?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@109.156.81.35) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 13 Oct 2014 07:06:17 -0000 Message-ID: <543B79E8.9030802@lsces.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:06:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <543B1E3D.5000500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <543B1E3D.5000500@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7 From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 13/10/14 01:35, Rowan Collins wrote: >> Because ini files use ; for comments and not #. > > - The behaviour of # as comments in earlier versions seems to have been > a side-effect of something else, rather than a deliberate feature. In > fact, it was possible to have a key starting with #, but a line starting > # that had no = was silently discarded. [4] Are there any examples where # is used in distributed ini files? Is this something that is related to someone's particular preference in style which a particular distribution path has changed every ; to # as a quick scan across my entire server base shows no cases where it is used. Certainly some projects have changed comment coding style in the code and irritatingly dropped docblock in favour of something else but I've not see any example of # based ini comments? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk