Re: [Vote] Add form feed as a whitespace character in trim, ltrim and rtrim
| From: | Gina P. Banyard | Date: | Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:57:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Vote] Add form feed as a whitespace character in trim, ltrim and rtrim | ||
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On Wednesday, 4 February 2026 at 14:42, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
>
> Where as I would, because we catch flack every version for how many "small" BC breaks
> we have. It hinders people's ability to upgrade and generates bad PR for PHP routinely.
>
> Majors exist for a reason.
PHP does not follow SemVer.
Minor BC breaks are accepted via our policy.
And as Tim said, waiting multiple years for a consistency fix (which frankly in my opinion this is
more a bug fix) is completely ludicrous.
But as usual none of this would be a problem if we didn't bundle 14 000 extensions and the
standard library being so massive and shoved into a single extension.
As then, the core language and extension APIs could evolve at different paces, and thus following
SemVer would at least be a potential consideration.
Best regards,
Gina P. Banyard