Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:80386 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34630 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2015 22:58:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jan 2015 22:58:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:53456] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 14/00-34383-40003B45 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:58:13 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9442400C3; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:58:09 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2smLzhqRVkgQ; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:58:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from oa-res-26-240.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-26-240.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.26.240]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6FCAC2400D0; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:58:08 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.1 \(1993\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:58:06 +0000 Cc: francois@tekwire.net, PHP Internals List Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <004701d02dee$f20059c0$d6010d40$@tekwire.net> To: Stelian Mocanita X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1993) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rand(), mt_rand() and limits From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hey Stelian, > On 11 Jan 2015, at 22:43, Stelian Mocanita wrote: >=20 > All this sounds really good, and I am all for uniformity when the = downsides are not too much to handle. I would have one suggestion = though, and that would be to add deprecation notices on every "mt_" = alias so in time they can be safely removed and cleaning everything up. We could remove them in a future version, yes. Though that, = specifically, would seem like a needless BC break. There=E2=80=99s = little harm in keeping the old aliases around. Thanks! -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/