Re: Why is ereg being deprecated?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:28:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why is ereg being deprecated? | ||
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Mark Krenz wrote:
> Again, this isn't a debate on which is better, I only want to STRONGLY
> stress that I think its a big mistake to remove it in 6.0.
The ereg library doesn't handle unicode so it can simply not work.
> If nobody simply wants to do the work to make sure ereg is ready for PHP
> 6 and unicode support, then you are not doing your job. I hate to call
> it a job because I'm sure that you all enjoy doing PHP development, but
> there are times when you have to bite the bullet and do the hard work
> because its your responsibility to do so.
Patches welcome.
Derick
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