Re: The open letter to Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
| From: | Ard Biesheuvel | Date: | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:03:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: The open letter to Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> | ||
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Lester Caine wrote:
On the other hand, if code IS working stably then it may be better to leave it alone. I'm not saying don't tidy up code, but ALL the tests against a change need to be in place before a change is applied to the live code, and in some cases it is worth remembering that PHP *IS* multi-platform. Some changes tailored for one environment may be a disaster in another - code for the 'safe' ground.As Alexander's initial re-implementation of crc32() was broken on 64-bit architectures, I think this is a very good point. -- Ard