Re: POSIX regex

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > There are clear things we want to change (like register_globals) because > > we believe that ultimately they have a significant benefit to our users > > with controllable downside (there is an easy one line workaround which > > we can document for people to get their old apps to work). There are > > other areas where breaking BC makes sense. But saying we should just > > break it across the board and not even consider having a good upgrade > > path for our users is unreasonable. I believe we can have a very good > > PHP 6, which is pretty much in sync with many of your feelings, but that > > provides a well documented and reasonable upgrade path (unlike VB -> > > VB.NET). > > I never said we should break BC just for the hell of it. The goal must be that > PHP6 feels and behaves like PHP. Its not about high-jacking PHP to come up > with the language we all wanted instead. > > > So let's not oversimplify this situation. We have to continue to make > > trade-offs. > > Sure, but you are suggesting to delay decisions indefinitely. Either you are > saying this because you already decided that you don't want this change, Doh, isn't that obvious? regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org