Nelson Menezes wrote:

> On 6/16/05, Johannes Schlueter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:27, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
>>>> I guess, this will more likely produce an error message like this:
>>>>
>>>> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PUBLIC, expecting T_STRING in
>>>> public.php on line 2
>>
>> right
>>
>>>> So I'm strongly against this change. If you want to run PHP4 code in
>>>> PHP5, disable E_STRICT.
>>
>> +1
>>
>>> id dont know, but isnt there a difference between where the keywords are
>>> placed?
>>
>> No, it's a parser keyword and a keyword can't be used as a function name.
>>
>>> and if it is so, then this would also be a candidate for
>>>
>>> "NOTICE: 'public' is a keyword in PHP 5" in php 4.4
>>
>> No. No "errors" for "forward compatibility".
>
> I completely agree. This (or any other "public-in-4.4" solution) would
> only create an extra branch to maintain for both developers and users;
> no one can expect all of the PHP 4.x base to go 4.4, and code with
> "public" that "supports php 4 and 5" would actually break in 4.<4 and
> still would be:
> 
> - unable to use PHP 5 
> - subject to the other PHP 4/5 issues

of course, id dont want any changes that break compatibility!


> Besides, the point of E_STRICT seems to be to _enforce_ best practices
> -- and if you care about this matter, considering all members as
> "public" is probably defying the concept anyway.

but defining all as public doesnt produces any NOTICEs, neither now nor
with the feature we are talking about.


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