Re: RE: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] PHP-4.0.5-RC6

James, You have to be aware that now PHP has such a big user base we need to be very careful in the changes we make especially when we can be pretty certain that it might burn quite a lot of people. We can break compatibility more easily when we have a major release (as from PHP 3 to PHP 4) but these kind of patches need to also be sensitive to the existing users. I personally don't know this issue very well and it is hard for me to guess how many people will be effected. Probably some of you who know this better can get an idea. Also I missed if this is the same directive as in php.ini. Anyway, I'm just saying don't take the user base too lightly because most of them aren't php-dev@ hackers who want the standards but they want their web sites to continue working. Anyway, this doesn't mean I am necessarily against including the patch but we need to make sure we're all OK with it and make a decision not only based on the standard but also on how much damage this might make. Andi At 09:22 PM 4/3/2001 +0100, James Moore wrote:

Yes, that's true. I did ask (couple of times) before I committed that patch. And yes, now both & and ; are considered as arg separators. And I'd like to think that it's a feature than bug. ;)

    That would be true, if PHP would be some kind of reference
    implementation.  But we don't exist to force standards down
    our users' throats.

    It should be optional and default to off.

Why shouldnt we require people to use legal url's? If we are conforming to standards, and I feel we should where possible (they are there for a reason.. by your argument why should dirname("/foo/") return / rather than /foo, which, to most of us is the most obvious but as you pointed out earlier the standards say so..). If I come from some other language or where ever and expect test=1;2;3 to work someway and it works differently to the standards "just because it does and we dont want to ram standards down peoples throats" its going to piss me off. I agree it should be optional but should be defaulted to on. -James -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net