Re: The open letter to Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: The open letter to Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> | ||
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 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.
And his stripslashes() "improvement" actually broke backward compatibility
and would have broken thousands of working scripts out there. That set
the tone for me for the rest of the patches.
-Rasmus