Re: 4.0.7 when?

> >IMHO the only really critical bug is #13616. I cannot really test the RC > >since the application that I use the most (SquirrelMail for example) do not > >work. > > This bug is really problematic, because effectively, it's not a bug. Prior > to the current CVS, PHP behaved pretty inconsistently with function > redefinitions. This caused all sorts of issues, as can be seen in bug > 9884. Sometime since 4.0.6, I changed the behavior to be consistent - if a > function is redefined during compile-time, it will complain, period. > Unfortunately, this obviously has a negative side effect, and a fairly big > one, too. Code that used to work, > if ($foo) { > return; > } > ...function definitions... > > no longer works. Instead, you have to do something like: > > if (!$foo): > ...function definitions... > endif; > > Fixing this is trivial, it means reverting the fix for bug 9884. The > question is whether we do that or not, and we need to decide about it... The next PHP release is going to be 4.1.0 and is already breaking compatibility in several ways. If it makes the language more consistent, we should IMHO keep at as it is and document this particular change in release notes explaining how to fix the code. The fix is simple and it should work with previous versions of PHP. Edin