At 06:42 AM 9/26/2002 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > There is little point in maintaining backwards compatibility > > if it can be established that there is no need for it > > anymore. > >My worry is that this change appears to have absolutely no positive >aspects and only negative potential. We know browsers exist that cannot >handle 4-digit years. Early WebTV boxes don't, early Netscape don't. We >do not know of any browsers that cannot handle 2-digit years. Hence I >fail to see the upside with this change. > >Your reasoning is that somebody will at some point write a browser that >can't handle 2-digit years and thus we should risk breaking existing apps >for a small percentage of users. I think we should worry about this when >such a browser actually surfaces.
I agree with Rasmus on this one. Let's be practical on this issue and not purists. Andi -- PHP CVS Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
