Re: Re: Backporting to 5_3
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:00:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Backporting to 5_3 | ||
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:
> >> What exactly does that change?
> >
> > $a = "foo"; list($b) = $a; var_dump($b);
>
> This is weird... I wouldn't go as far as saying nobody uses it - since
> experience shows there's somebody somewhere using any weird combination
> of PHP features imaginable - but it's definitely a strange code. Even
> though, I think since it's functionality drop, we may want to wait with
> it, unless it doesn't work anyway (e.g. produces segfaults in some cases).
I agree.
Any functionality removal, no matter how wtf it might be, shouldn't be merged.
If we could however throw E_DEPRECATED there, that would be great.
-Hannes