Re: What's our official stance on small self-containedadditions in a micro version
| From: | Christoph Becker | Date: | Wed, 01 Apr 2015 23:11:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What's our official stance on small self-containedadditions in a micro version | ||
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Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> The questions here are:
>> * will this code break any code running with PHP before that patch?
>> * does this code change the language in any way?
>
> OK, so I think there's a misunderstanding here. What you describing is
> exactly my position - enhancements that are a) small and b)
> self-contained are OK, others are not OK. This has been the case since
> we started the whole format release process thing.
Hmm, would you consider introducing a new function in the *global*
namespace to be a self-contained feature? I would not, because the
function definition would change the global environment, possibly
breaking some code.
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Christoph M. Becker