Why break BC if you don't have to‽ (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Fix list() behavior inconsistency)
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:12:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Why break BC if you don't have to‽ (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Fix list() behavior inconsistency) | ||
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Lars Strojny wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2014, at 17:27, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > I'm in favor of disabling for consistency as well, however, I wish a
> > warning would be emitted.
>
> Voted in favour of disabling as well but could easily live with the
> other option as everything is better then leaving the inconsistency
> there.
So you'd rather have that already working code now stops working,
instead of new bits of code *starting* to work. That's incredibly
backwards.
Certainly it would be less of a pain for our *users* to allow both options‽
cheers,
Derick