My example was http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php
I have other examples of what I globally mean, these kinds are recurrent : - "Note: The null type was introduced in PHP 4." - "Warning : Before PHP 4.3.0, appending to an array in which the current maximum key was negative would create a new key as described above. Since PHP 4.3.0, the new key will be 0." - The whole chapter # Object Aggregation — Object Aggregation/Composition [PHP 4] - http://www.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php has lots of PHP4 history like "session.gc_divisor ; Available since PHP 4.3.2." - "PHP supports CLI SAPI since PHP 4.3.0" - "Note : In PHP 4.0.3 and older, in order to use URL wrappers, you were required to configure PHP using the configure option --enable-url-fopen-wrapper ." - "Note : The Windows versions of PHP earlier than PHP 4.3 did not support remote file accessing for the following functions : XYZ" - "Note : Heredoc was added in PHP4" etc... What I mean is that, yes we should keep an history because its interesting to know what things happen, and when. But that history *should be kept in a specific part of the doc*, and *not* in the actual reference manual (regarding PHP4 at least) 99% of users visiting function or language specific pages of the manual dont care about the NULL type having spawned in PHP4, or that PHP supports CLI since 4.3.0. They are just looking for some info for their code and they are often disturbed while grabbing info by some "PHP4.X.Y things that are not here anymore in PHP4.XX.YY but back in PHP5" so yes, we are in PHP5, why that sentence ?. We should keep an history, but in a specific chapter. People today dont write code under PHP4, they *at least* maintain PHP4 apps alive, but dont work on PHP4 code anymore. Now about PHP5, it could be the same for 5.0 or even 5.1. We should have a debate about that as we can still see some PHP5.1 (RedHat) apps, but talking about PHP4 : it just keeps the reading heavy and sometimes even boring. Regards, J.Pauli On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Philip Olson <phi...@roshambo.org> wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2010, at 1:38 AM, Julien Pauli wrote: > > > Ok, so we put away all PHP4 terms from docs which mix PHP4 ans PHP5 ? > > Not sure what you mean. If decided, we'll remove them. Maybe you have an > example or three? > > > What to do for docs like "Predifined Variables" which highly rely on PHP 4 > > (register globals switch) ? > > I'm not sure what you mean here, and don't see the problem. In other words, I > don't see how this relates to PHP 4. > > Regards, > Philip
