Re: type hinting throwing a fatal error

Hi Rasmus, > Steph wrote: > > If there's the capability to run PHP 6 without Unicode support, surely > > there's no reason for extensions to lose back compatability when they're > > updated...? > > That's going to be tough. They will definitely lose binary > compatibility because all sorts of internal structures are changing > which a runtime switch can't do anything about. We may be able to keep > compatibility at the source level, but having extensions that fall over > when you turn on unicode semantics would be a real pain. It might be a > feature to break them and have a nice FAQ on what needs to be done to > upgrade the extension to support Unicode. Ouf - you're effectively saying that Unicode support will need to be enabled via INI directives on a per-extension basis? Or that there will need to be two versions of every PHP extension? > Not that I agree with Derick on changing the meaning of E_ERROR. :) - Steph