Fw: [PHP-DEV] 4.0.6

----- Original Message ----- From: "Boian Bonev" <boian@bonev.com> To: "Dave Jones" <JONESD@mps.ohio-state.edu> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.0.6 > hi, > > > And also line number don't get incremented if there are no line ends, so > > all syntax errors are reported as being on line 1. > > The issue might have never come up if the code used "r" mode for opens > > rather that "rb", since the file are 'text' files. On platforms that > > don't used embedded newline characters as the record delimiters, the > > implementation of fread is responsible for mapping the underlying file > > format to cannonical form (i.e. \n's delimiting lines). > > you are partially correct - if we have only 'native' files - yes this is the > case. but imagine tons of downloaded code, parts of it originating from *nix > others from windows, and parts of them edited so all the three possible > combinations are used. perhapse you know that most editors convert line > endings only for edited lines not for the whole file. now the task of > correctly counting line numbers is not that easy. neighter file conversion > is. of course some editors pretend to be that clever to interprete all the > three formats - something like greedy eating \n\r|\n|\r in this order... > > b. > forgot to say that php must flawlessly interprete all the combinations provided that it is a platform independant language and never rely on os specific stuff - win php source must work on unix as unix php source on windows...