Re: Re: Binary string forward compatibility removal

Morning Andrea, Who is widely deploying something that does absolutely nothing ? The only reason to keep it would be that we are going to change the default representation, as pointed out we're not. This cannot have been left in for considered reasons, it was just forgotten about. Cheers Joe On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > Hi Pedro, > > I don't support this removal. > > Currently, yes, the flag doesn't do anything, and it's unlikely to do so > in future, as Nikita points out. > > However, it's not improbable that we might see a u flag in > future, and > if that was added, b might still be useful as an explicit > counterpart. > > Anyway, this feels like deprecation for its own sake. As you point out, > removing this breaks widely-deployed code. When the benefit of removal is > negligible, and it breaks existing code, I don't think it can be justified. > > Thanks. > -- > Andrea Faulds > https://ajf.me/ > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >