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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] BC break with rand() where min > max
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 09.08.2016 at 00:12, Davey Shafik wrote:

> I would _very_ much prefer to keep this BC. If we do the right thing, and
> there are no repercussions, I'd actually remove the warning. 

Well, there is already <https://bugs.php.net/72784>.

> If you think
> we might want to disallow this in the future, use an E_DEPRECATED, but a
> warning seems pointless unless it's doing the wrong thing, or it's going to
> start doing the wrong thing at some point.

+1

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Christoph M. Becker