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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] INDRECT in arrays causes count() to become unpredictable
From: ircmaxell@gmail.com (Anthony Ferrara)

Zeev,

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>
>> On 22 =D7=91=D7=A0=D7=95=D7=91=D7=B3 2015, at 0:47, Anthony Ferrara <irc=
maxell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think this is significant enough to be a blocker to gold and that we
>> should fix it prior to release.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> IMHO, unless we think fixing this would require breaking binary compatibi=
lity (which I don't think is the case) - this shouldn't block 7.0.0.  7.0.0=
 is a lot more about getting people to start paying attention to 7.0 and st=
art testing their codebase against it - finding both the incompatibilities =
in their code and, undoubtedly - the bugs we failed to find.  I wish we cou=
ld say this would be the last issue we find in 7.0, but I think we can all =
agree it's wishful thinking...

Consider that Distros may very well pick whatever we call stable for
LTS releases. Meaning that non-critical (crash/security) bugs that we
miss may wind up living on for a VERY long time. If we don't intend .0
to be stable, then what's the point of versioning in the first place?

Xinchen,

Very interesting on the fix. I do think it's important for this to
land with 7, but at least we can have the discussion.

Thanks!!!

Anthony