Re: pdo: patch to make leading colon unneeded for bound variables without breaking BC.

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:13:54 +0100, Edin Kadribasic <edink@emini.dk> wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2005, at 1:47, Wez Furlong wrote: > > > There are releases on pecl.php.net, and there are (a few) people > > running these in production. In addition, it's been advertised as > > working this way for over a year. > > > > So, it is important to preserve the current behaviour when this patch > > is applied (will do so this weekend; need to catch up on a lot of > > things first). > > Hehe, this is too funny. Last time you dismissed my BC concerns when I > said we should remove ":" now by saying something along the lines, we > can always make things less strict. If this does not make sense now its > because it never did :) I've had code running using ':' since before this topic was first raised. I don't see what's funny about it; the fact is that there is code alive using : prefixes; we can't simply stop supporting it. Thies' patch is simply "making things less strict", and that is not something I had ruled out, just a decision I wanted to defer. --Wez.