Re: can i rely on ctype?

Alexey Borzov wrote:

Hi, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

Just FYI: ctype is scheduled to be deprecated in PHP6.

...As stated by core PHP developer X at [Y]?

This was decided at the infamous paris PHP6 meeting and is still listed on the php todo list on my wiki. http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP60

Your wiki (and your presentation) are the only two sources of this make-ctype-deprecated rumour I could ever find. The pages you link to from your wiki (including the Paris meeting minutes) do not mention ctype at all. So I'd still like to see a "core developer X states at [Y] that ctype will be deprecated".

You are right, it was not in Paris. I ran a query on the wiki history and found it was added by Marcus Boerger in May 2006: http://oss.backendmedia.com/index.php?area=PHPTODO&page=PhP60&view=diff&to=2006-05-02+22%3A47%3A36&from=2006-05-02+14%3A10%3A53 Maybe the decision making process can be found inside the Zend weeklies or the internals mailinglist around that time frame.

Thanks a lot for clarification! Unfortunately, cannot find any trace of decision making process either in the list or the weekly summaries. In fact, the only mention of ctype in summaries [1] lists it among the extensions that are ready for Unicode. That's a bit strange, since deprecating the extension that is currently enabled by default is a pretty major change. I think getting the relevant info out of Marcus and / or Andrei is in order... [1] http://devzone.zend.com/article/1520-Zend-Weekly-Summaries-Issue-315

Hoi Marcus, Andrei, can you gives us a clarification on the question on if ctype will infact be deprecated in PHP6? regards, Lukas