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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Improve uniqid() uniqueness
From: kazuo@o-ishi.jp (Kazuo Oishi)

Hi,

>> IMO, improving it (generate better semi-unique ID) is not important
>> enoungh to introduce unnecessary BC break.  (Why returning string length
>> is changed?)
>
> It cannot not produce unique ID by default as name "uniqid()" implies.
> Reason is described in the RFC. Please read RFC because it's the
> official proposal.

I had read it, of course.  But I could not understand why you chose BC
break way.

Now, I understand your intention to change default value of
"more_entropy" despite of BC break.  You do want to change the default
behavior of uniqid.

But I cannot agree.

-- 
Kazuo Oishi