Re: cvs: php4 / php.ini-recommended
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Sat, 05 Oct 2002 13:10:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: php4 / php.ini-recommended | ||
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At 06:42 AM 9/26/2002 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
There is little point in maintaining backwards compatibility
if it can be established that there is no need for it
anymore.
My worry is that this change appears to have absolutely no positive
aspects and only negative potential. We know browsers exist that cannot
handle 4-digit years. Early WebTV boxes don't, early Netscape don't. We
do not know of any browsers that cannot handle 2-digit years. Hence I
fail to see the upside with this change.
Your reasoning is that somebody will at some point write a browser that
can't handle 2-digit years and thus we should risk breaking existing apps
for a small percentage of users. I think we should worry about this when
such a browser actually surfaces.