Steph Fox wrote:
> What concerns me at this point is that we could and should be telling
> PHP users how to future-proof their code during the move from PHP 4 to
> PHP 5. If we can get a fix on that now and get word out, we'll have made
> their future migration path *much* smoother.

As far as I can tell, it's effectively impossible for anyone who wants
to support "low" PHP 5 versions. That's because the b"" prefix wasn't
introduced until PHP 5.2.1, and that prefix is *crucial* to
future-proofing any code that deals with binary data.

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