Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
On 21 Jan 2008, at 14:38, Antony Dovgal wrote:
3) 2+ bigger codebase [1] (with lots of duplicates because we have to
do
same things in native and unicode modes);
From the cross-reference I assume you mean PHP's codebase. We still
need binary string support — Unicode is only suitable for textual
content. Images, for example, are binary data and we still need binary
strings for them. Not everything people deal with in PHP is a textual
string.
He could really be referring to both, honestly. The size of codebases in
PHP applications will grow as a result, as developers will have to
provide the "compatibility ports" for making their code work with both
the switch on and off. Either that, or they just have to support one or
the other, but not both. Which results in vendors alienating their
userbase because they happen to be on a host or server that has the
option set out of their favor for whatever reason.
And if I remember correctly, there's an explicit typecast (binary) for
binary data now, isn't there?
unicode and binary typecasts are not backwards compatible.
I think the emphasis on the PHP6 release needs to be taken off the
backwards compatibility and placed more on fixing what's broken about
the current solution. If people need Unicode to the point that they're
willing to make the jump to PHP6, then they'll do just that. It's
terribly inefficient to try and make everything easy on everyone and
your end result is hurting the internals developers for the sheer amount
of headache that's being caused by the current implementation. You can't
have it all, so instead of trying to make PHP6 backwards compatible, how
about the focus be placed on making it BETTER than PHP5?
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