Derick Rethans wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Zoe Slattery wrote:
Hi
I think there are two user scenarios to consider:
(a) User works only on platform X and extpects the PHP function to return
exactly what he would see from (say) the equivalent C function
(b) User works on multiple platforms and wants his PHP app to behave
exactly the same way across all of them.
For writing tests it sounds like we are agreeing to follow scenario (a) but to
makes changes to the doc so that the user in scenario (b) knows why his
application might not work.
I'd say that PHP should work like in (b) though - everything should work
the same on every platform.
For many, or even most, functions that has to be the goal. But for
filesystem functions I'm not sure that it's always practical, for eample
chmod() has (as far as I know) no meaning on Windows but is very useful
on Linux, so we'd have to differentiate here.
regards,
Derick
Zoe Slattery
IBM
--
PHP CVS Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
