Re: [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

On 13 October 2014 08:06:16 GMT+01:00, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >On 13/10/14 01:35, Rowan Collins wrote: >>> Because ini files use ; for comments and not #. >> >> - The behaviour of # as comments in earlier versions seems to have >been >> a side-effect of something else, rather than a deliberate feature. In >> fact, it was possible to have a key starting with #, but a line >starting >> # that had no = was silently discarded. [4] > >Are there any examples where # is used in distributed ini files? >Is this something that is related to someone's particular preference in >style which a particular distribution path has changed every ; to # as >a >quick scan across my entire server base shows no cases where it is >used. >Certainly some projects have changed comment coding style in the code >and irritatingly dropped docblock in favour of something else but I've >not see any example of # based ini comments? Based on the above, I think what happened is that people had used # for blocks of explanation, and ; for commented out values. While hunting down what happened, I did find some downstream bugs from one Linux distro removing # comments in reaction to the deprecation notices, so this certainly wasn't just a localised mistake.