On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Paul Dragoonis wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, 16:32 Christoph M. Becker, <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 28.11.2022 at 16:50, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, mickmackusa wrote:
> > >
> > >> Can anyone explain to me why it is desirable/beneficial for the DateTime
> > >> class to store a warning that trailing characters were ignored while
> > >> parsing a date/time string with the + symbol in createFromFormat()?
> > >
> > > I have no idea why I decided that was a good idea back all these years,
> > > and I'm perfectly happy to remove that restriction from PHP 8.3
> > > forwards — it's too late to do that in PHP 8.2 now, as it's being
> > > released next week.
> >
> > That would appear to consitute a BC break.  From the docs:
> >
> > | If this format specifier is present, trailing data in the string will
> > | not cause an error, but a warning instead
> >
> > This can be used to parse the date (without the +, parsing may fail),
> > but still be able to return a message about ignored characters to the user.
> >
> 
> We are allowed to break BC in minor version upgrades, Chris.
> 
> We can allow this is 8.3 I think, rather than waiting for 9.0
> 
> What do you think?

No, we don't break BC for minor gains. If Christopher says that this is 
a documented feature, then there is even less opportunity to do so.

I'll see if I can come up with a different letter to allow for just 
ignoring trailing data.

cheers,
Derick

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