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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What's our official stance on small self-containedadditions
 in a micro version
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker)

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

>> The questions here are:
>> * will this code break any code running with PHP before that patch?
>> * does this code change the language in any way?
> 
> OK, so I think there's a misunderstanding here. What you describing is
> exactly my position - enhancements that are a) small and b)
> self-contained are OK, others are not OK. This has been the case since
> we started the whole format release process thing.

Hmm, would you consider introducing a new function in the *global*
namespace to be a self-contained feature?  I would not, because the
function definition would change the global environment, possibly
breaking some code.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker