Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] strchr()

Personally, I think doing it the "right" way would be more important than backwards compatibility. I say +1 for changing to a true strchr(). --Joey Smith Please forgive the long sig: *** Notice To Bulk Emailers: Attention! Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, any & all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of the $1500 US and copies will be forwarded to domain administrators. Emailing denotes acceptance of said terms! On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Sterling Hughes wrote: > Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > Write now the PHP function strchr() is aliased to strstr() for some odd > > reason. It could be implemented much faster as strchr() just looks for a > > character within a string and not a string within a string. > > Do you guys think people are using strchr() where strstr() should be used, > > and will they get bitten if its behavior is changed to do "exactly but not > > more" of what it should do? > > > > Andi > > --- > > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > > http://www.zend.com/ > > Since we have already documented them as being aliases for quite a while > now, it will definitely break a lot of scripts, and considering most of > the people using PHP are on hosting on pretty fast machines, the speed > gain is not, I don't think, worth breaking perfectly good scripts. > > Sterling > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > >