Re: forward compatibility "public" in 4.4

Hi, Lukas Smith wrote:

I think its a good idea to have, to make it somewhat possible to prepare for the PHP5 E_STRICT world, while still developing PHP4 compatible code. I could for example see this help increase the PHP5 adoption inside PEAR, since this would allow us to make some packages E_STRICT compatible without throwing out PHP4 compatibility (inside PEAR we consider increased major PHP versions to be a BC break, but not minor versions).

Will this still work in PHP 4.4 as it did in 4.3 if you apply the patch? function public($foo) { var_dump($foo); } public(42); I guess, this will more likely produce an error message like this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PUBLIC, expecting T_STRING in public.php on line 2 So I'm strongly against this change. If you want to run PHP4 code in PHP5, disable E_STRICT. Just my 2 cts, Stephan