Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:96752 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7309 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2016 01:22:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Nov 2016 01:22:39 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 2.216.52.233 unknown Received: from [2.216.52.233] ([2.216.52.233:23606] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7A/F8-33116-E57DF185 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 20:22:38 -0500 Message-ID: <7A.F8.33116.E57DF185@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 01:22:34 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 2.216.52.233 Subject: Re: Binary string forward compatibility removal From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hi Pedro, I don't support this removal. Currently, yes, the flag doesn't do anything, and it's unlikely to do so in future, as Nikita points out. However, it's not improbable that we might see a `u` flag in future, and if that was added, `b` might still be useful as an explicit counterpart. Anyway, this feels like deprecation for its own sake. As you point out, removing this breaks widely-deployed code. When the benefit of removal is negligible, and it breaks existing code, I don't think it can be justified. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/