Re: Resource constants

2008/10/26 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net>: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 14:32 +0100, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: >> So, I propose its either being a "supported" feature, or simply put an >> deprecation notice on it (5.3) and remove it HEAD. I personally vote >> for the last option, as I don't think resources should be constants as >> they do not have the constant value even though they do on some level. > > I recently discussed the same issue on IRC, (due to #45982) we can't get > rid of resources in constants completely as we need that for STDIN, > STDOU, STDERR constants. Yes I know, but still I think we should either making it a supported feature or restrict registering resources on define(). > > We might still block users from doing but I don't see real benefit from > doing that - I think it's ok to have undocumented features ... :-) I would rather not have so many undocumented features in the manual as possible, even though they can be buggy like ticks for Windows threaded webservers ;) > > johannes > > -- Kalle Sommer Nielsen