Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Leigh Makewell
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Well, that is the point, it didn't actually work. Code similar to this caused memory corruption. So while you may not have seen an instant crash, over time and in certain conditions you would get unexplained crashes. In order to fix this bug we needed to check for this

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Petar Nedyalkov
On Thursday 15 September 2005 06:12, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Makoto Tozawa wrote: Jani Taskinen wrote: Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :) One that really NEEDS this to be possible.. It's impossible to find one as PHP doesn't support it today.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 10:23 15/09/2005, Leigh Makewell wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Well, that is the point, it didn't actually work. Code similar to this caused memory corruption. So while you may not have seen an instant crash, over time and in certain conditions you would get unexplained crashes. In order

[PHP-DEV] references in arrays

2005-09-15 Thread Ron Korving
Hi, For performance' sake, I have to know if this is true: Is it the case that when I do this: ?php $array = array(one = array(0,1,2), two = array(4,5,6)); $one = $array[one]; ? That $one is not a copy, but a reference to $array[one] and will only become a copy when I alter the contents of

Re: [PHP-DEV] references in arrays

2005-09-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 13:35 15/09/2005, Ron Korving wrote: Hi, For performance' sake, I have to know if this is true: Is it the case that when I do this: ?php $array = array(one = array(0,1,2), two = array(4,5,6)); $one = $array[one]; ? That $one is not a copy, but a reference to $array[one] and will only

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Ron Korving
Yes it is legal because it worked That's nonsense. Even in the C-language certain things have worked in the past because of compiler bugs. Newer GCC versions have fixed it and broken C-code. Too bad for the users, but it improved the compiler's C-compliance. Something might work, but that

[PHP-DEV] Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Leigh Makewell wrote: joke. People critisise and joke about PHP's automatic Bogus bot that just trolls through the database and marks any submitted bugs as Bogus. What is the point of making the bug database public? 1) I'm not a bot. 2) I'm not bogusing

Re: [PHP-DEV] references in arrays

2005-09-15 Thread Ron Korving
Perfect :) I've been doing it wrong all the time, thinking I was improving performance. It's good to know how things really work under the hood. Thanks, Ron Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef in bericht news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 13:35 15/09/2005, Ron Korving wrote: Hi, For

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
I don't care about this as long as I can DISABLE it from my PHP builds (and not be forced to link it with ICU). --Jani On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Makoto Tozawa wrote: Jani Taskinen wrote: Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :)

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Leigh Makewell
Zeev Suraski wrote: Let me let you in on a secret as well. This tone isn't going to get you anywhere. No it won't. But the diplomatic one didn't get us anything except insults and put downs. This approach has at least got some serious attention. :) For the record, I was against fixing

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Leigh Makewell
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: That's fine, and you shouldn't care, I agree. I argued much the same point just yesterday in a chat with Ilia. You do however seem to be glossing over the fact that this new check can be very helpful. Take this case: sort(array(3,2,1)); Or any other example where the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Michael Walter
On 9/15/05, Leigh Makewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There are too many viable options out there to warrant sticking with the relatively fragile and limited PHP platform. Change to Ruby. It's heaps better! FWIW, Ruby is changing as well. Regards, Michael -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

RE: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread David Zülke
I think he has a point. Regardless, I'd like to add something else: Right now, BC has been broken and non-transparent, illogical behaviour been introduced due to engine internals. It will never be obvious nor logical to new users why they cannot return a new Object() or whatever without using a

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Edin Kadribasic
Marcus Boerger wrote: Hello Edin, well imho it makes no sense to prefix all the iterators with Spl and also most of them are released already with 5.0. Changing those is to big of a BC issue isn't it? I mean it is different from changing a few consts very rarely used to class consts.

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Edin Kadribasic schrieb: Now, you claim they cannot be renamed due to the BC concerns I think we should break BC for PHP 5.1 and prefix the existing classes with SPL. This is better than the current state in HEAD and PHP_5_1 which is inconsistent. Hopefully we will have namespaces in PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/15/05, Leigh Makewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe all of this could of been avoided with careful PR. Now you need some major PR to repair the damage. All the points I tried to explain in the last 2 months or so were about that and only that. Every oppinions have been raised. If

[PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Leigh Makewell
Well then I suggest you get out there and find out what you are doing wrong because there is an increasing number of people out there who are not happy with how their bugs are being treated. This is a good place to start. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=297291 Ask them what

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Leigh Makewell wrote: Well then I suggest you get out there and find out what you are doing wrong because there is an increasing number of people out there who are not happy with how their bugs are being treated. This is a good place to start.

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Andi, hello Zeev, MFH and change towards class constants is done. The only part being new inside SPL now is the ability of spl's autoload to work with non static loader methods. Do you think i should move that into 5.1 as well? regards marcus Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 9:55:32 PM,

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Sebastian, honestly why do you want to prefix iterators? and secondly i'd be just plain stupid to prefix the exception classes. In the end we should move the exception classes into the engine anyways. But who cares what i say marcus Thursday, September 15, 2005, 2:08:53 PM, you

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handlingchange and PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/15/05, Leigh Makewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't know why it's wrong to tell them they are stupid, You are doning something stupid does not mean that you are stupid. For example, arguing like you do about Jani, is stupid, but you are certainly not stupid. Notice the difference?

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handlingchangeand PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Steph
Leigh, that's kinda the point (and to some degree the problem). This is not a job. If you don't know why it's wrong to tell them they are stupid, and can't be bother spending an extra 10 seconds formulating a respectable response instead, then you are the wrong person for the job. --

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Marcus Boerger schrieb: honestly why do you want to prefix iterators? and secondly i'd be just plain stupid to prefix the exception classes. Bugger, I forgot that those two (iterators and exceptions) are part of SPL for a second. They're so essential, IMHO, that I thought them part of the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handlingchange and PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Leigh Makewell wrote: If you don't know why it's wrong to tell them they are stupid, and can't be Show me the report where I have called someone stupid. Then I can explain you why I did so. :) bother spending an extra 10 seconds formulating a respectable

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Sebastian Bergmann schrieb: Bugger, I forgot that those two Just to clarify for those who do not know that Bugger can be used a phrase along the lines of Oh my God!: I did not call Marcus a bugger, which would be, given certain meanings of the word as a noun, really bad name calling. --

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Wez Furlong
No one is forcing you to upgrade to PHP 6. --Wez. On 9/15/05, Jani Taskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't care about this as long as I can DISABLE it from my PHP builds (and not be forced to link it with ICU). --Jani On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

[PHP-DEV] ARG_INFO and by_ref for objects?

2005-09-15 Thread Michael Wallner
Hi, as nobody was able to answer my question on IRC, I just drop it here: Is it useless (yet even counter-productive) to enable pass_by_ref in an ARG_INFO section for a function or method that expects an object? By counter-productive I mean that I'd need to actually pass an identifier for a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handlingchangeand PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Oliver Grätz
Jani Taskinen schrieb: 10 seconds? Sheesh. If english was my native language, maybe I could do it that fast but as it isn't, and as I have to first think the phrase in finnish then traslate it in my head into english and then write it and then fix the typos, it takes

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Wez Furlong
The Oh my God! meaning comes from the fuller phrase Bugger me!; neither usage is appropriate for polite company. --Wez. On 9/15/05, Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Bergmann schrieb: Bugger, I forgot that those two Just to clarify for those who do not know that Bugger

Re: [PHP-DEV] ARG_INFO and by_ref for objects?

2005-09-15 Thread Wez Furlong
Only use references when you need to be able to overwrite the variable. --Wez. On 9/15/05, Michael Wallner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, as nobody was able to answer my question on IRC, I just drop it here: Is it useless (yet even counter-productive) to enable pass_by_ref in an ARG_INFO

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handlingchangeandPHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Ron Korving
Yeah, it's awesome. I heard there's even a number of kids in Finland who can speak, read and write Finnish. Awesome! ;) Ron Oliver Grätz [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef in bericht news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jani Taskinen schrieb: 10 seconds? Sheesh. If english was my native language, maybe I

Re: [PHP-DEV] ARG_INFO and by_ref for objects?

2005-09-15 Thread Michael Wallner
Hi Wez Furlong, you wrote: Only use references when you need to be able to overwrite the variable. Ok, and what about return_by_ref? Thanks, -- Michael - mike(@)php.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
Touché. :) But I must insist. I want to upgrade at some point. I might even have use for unicode, at some point. But why can't I disable it as long as it does not give me anything I need? On other topic, I want to do the spring cleaning we discussed earlier already in

[PHP-DEV] what happened to php-5.0.* snaps in http://snaps.php.net

2005-09-15 Thread Kamesh Jayachandran
Hi All, I could not see the latest snaps of php-5.0.6-dev on http://snaps.php.net. But still could I could get http://snaps.php.net/php5-STABLE-latest.tar.bz2. With regards Kamesh Jayachandran -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

RE: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 14:57 15/09/2005, David Zülke wrote: I think he has a point. Regardless, I'd like to add something else: Right now, BC has been broken and non-transparent, illogical behaviour been introduced due to engine internals. It will never be obvious nor logical to new users why they cannot return a

Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to php-5.0.* snaps in http://snaps.php.nett

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
PHP_5_0 branch is dead meat. Just use PHP_5_1. --Jani On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Kamesh Jayachandran wrote: Hi All, I could not see the latest snaps of php-5.0.6-dev on http://snaps.php.net. But still could I could get http://snaps.php.net/php5-STABLE-latest.tar.bz2. With regards Kamesh

[PHP-DEV] PATCH for #34505 (was 5.1.0RC2)

2005-09-15 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 15.09.2005 03:24, Antony Dovgal wrote: On 14.09.2005 15:20, Zeev Suraski wrote: Any last minute additions to 5.1.0RC2 or can we roll it? If it's not too late I'd like to fix http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34505 before RC2. It'll require addition of zend_unmangle_property_name_ex() and

[PHP-DEV] PATCH for typo in zend_compile.c (was 5.1.0RC2)

2005-09-15 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 14.09.2005 15:20, Zeev Suraski wrote: Any last minute additions to 5.1.0RC2 or can we roll it? It seems that #27145 has crept back into 5.1 with a copy/paste typo. Here is the patch for it too. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal Index: Zend/zend_compile.c

Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to php-5.0.* snaps in http://snaps.php.nett

2005-09-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
Jani, 5_0 is not dead meat right now anymore than 4_4 is. It's going to be used for quite a while still. If you had something to do with the removal of the snaps, please revert. Thanks, Zeev At 18:04 15/09/2005, Jani Taskinen wrote: PHP_5_0 branch is dead meat. Just use PHP_5_1.

[PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Peter Brodersen
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:34:21 +1000, in php.internals [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leigh Makewell) wrote: The people who submit bugs are helping you make the product better. You should never insult a person for trying to help you. Tell them you are unable to reproduce the error and then point them to the

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Wez Furlong schrieb: The Oh my God! meaning comes from the fuller phrase Bugger me!; neither usage is appropriate for polite company. Rest assured that I will never use that phrase again. Thanks for your clarification! -- Sebastian Bergmann

Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to php-5.0.* snaps in http://snaps.php.nett

2005-09-15 Thread Kamesh Jayachandran
Thanks Zeev and Jani for the clarification. As long as http://snaps.php.net/php5-STABLE-latest.tar.bz2 is available, I have no issues about what is shown in the web. With regards Kamesh Jayachandran On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:17:33 +0300, Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jani, 5_0 is not dead

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Peter Brodersen wrote: Comparing php bug reporting to mozilla and mysql (the latter being a bit unfair comparison with professional workers) I think that mozilla bogus bugs have better references (to dupes, etc.) and mysql bogus bugs are even more polite in their template

RE: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread David Zülke
How does the first part relate to the second part in any way? The confusion level? If that's your point, then we're doing our best to decrease confusion rather than foster it. PHP 5 was a big step in the way with its new object model and the much reduced need for references. As a matter

[PHP-DEV] GD

2005-09-15 Thread Andi \Debug\ Ireland
Greetings, My team has added read support for TGA, PIC and SGI formatted images to the GD library bundled with PHP 5.0.5 can we get this added into the gd released with php? or anything similar we want to release this code back to the community. Debug -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to php-5.0.* snaps in http://snaps.php.nett

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
Nobody _removed_ any snaps. They're just hidden. And as for PHP_5_0 branch: You may do whatever you want with it but I don't want to have anything to do with it. Most of the bugs said fixed are only fixed in PHP_5_1. There are just too many things broken in PHP_5_0 branch.

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist

2005-09-15 Thread Ron Korving
Mike Bretz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Also an useful feature would be const on function parameters. Hmm, I like that ;) That may even provide a performance increasing opportunity... I have another idea I came up with today: regular expression switches, but it

Re: RE: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Douglas
It does indeed relate. You now have the problem that you have to explain to people why they cannot do return new FooBar(); in their methods. Doesn't that only apply to code you write that must be compatible with PHP4? In which case, is it still something you would have to explain to someone

[PHP-DEV] spring cleaning

2005-09-15 Thread Tex Texin
-Original Message- From: Jani Taskinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Was: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names Touché. :) But I must insist. I want to upgrade at some point. I might even have use for unicode, at

Re: RE: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 22:08 15/09/2005, Douglas wrote: It does indeed relate. You now have the problem that you have to explain to people why they cannot do return new FooBar(); in their methods. Doesn't that only apply to code you write that must be compatible with PHP4? In which case, is it still something

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist

2005-09-15 Thread James Crumpton
Can be done already ... sorta. switch (true) { case ($str == 'abc'): echo it was ABC!\n; break; case (preg_match('/^[0-9]+$/i', $str)): echo it was a number!\n; break; default: echo it was no

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist

2005-09-15 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
Ron Korving wrote: I have another idea I came up with today: regular expression switches, but it would be difficult without adding to the syntax. no, its actually pretty easy from a syntax point of view, you don't need to add another keyword, just add an optional callback parameter to switch()

[PHP-DEV] Re: Segfault

2005-09-15 Thread RG
The following code segfaults after either I call die/exit or call socketi_accept once again. Can anyone spot anything working with it? #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include config.h #endif #include php.h #include php_hello.h #include string.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/socket.h #include netdb.h

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: 5.1.0RC2

2005-09-15 Thread Andrey Hristov
Pierre Joye wrote: On 9/14/05, Greg Beaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar For the distros, let use the same system. If one would like to customize, he is free to use go.pear.phar at a later point. Regards, --PIerre go-phear.phear :) intall-phear :) Andrey

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread Christopher Jones
Derick Rethans wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Peter Brodersen wrote: I guess my only real suggestion is that some of the template-answers could be better worded. Feel free to send a patch, and that was not meant as an attack. I wrote this sometime back; it may be out of date. Chris

[PHP-DEV] Re: Segfault

2005-09-15 Thread Sara Golemon
new_sock-bsd_socket = accept(php_sock-bsd_socket, sa, salen); In all liklihood it's that. Now In the nicest way possible, why don't I suggest that you CLEAN UP YOUR CODE NEXT TIME!?!?! You might have noticed that new_sock isn't alloc'd if it wern't for all the comments and flat-out bad

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Andi Gutmans
Jani, I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU library it's almost like not supporting libC. If you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and discuss but I think it's not realistic. Regarding spring cleaning, I suggest to relax a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jani, I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU library it's almost like not supporting libC. If you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and discuss but I think it's not realistic.

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Debug Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not using CVS version of the PHP source what is the CVS information so i can checkout and merge my code into it and make a patch. Sorry, I was not clear. Send me the patch, tell me against wich version it matches. I have to commit

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think most of that list can be implemented but while it's easy to give a +1 and make the changes, I still want to dive into some of them more. I've been much busier looking at the Unicode stuff and 5.1.x patches so I didn't have a lot of time

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jani, I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU library it's almost like not supporting libC. If you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and discuss but I think it's not realistic.

[PHP-DEV] Re: Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Colin Tucker
Hello again, Wow, this thread generated more heat than I thought it would, I basically just wanted to know the reasoning behind making the change to PHP4, unfortunate I guess for all involved that it went downhill. I have learned much in the past few days, at any rate. As mentioned, my

[PHP-DEV] Re: Segfault

2005-09-15 Thread RG
That's not where it segfaults. The function works perfectly once. If I attempt to exit / die or call that function again, it segfaults. However, I have noticed that if I do not use ZEND_REGISTER_RESOURCE the program no longer segfaults. And sorry for the comments, someone people don't write the

[PHP-DEV] Re: Segfault

2005-09-15 Thread Sara Golemon
That's not where it segfaults. The function works perfectly once. If I attempt to exit / die or call that function again, it segfaults. However, I have noticed that if I do not use ZEND_REGISTER_RESOURCE the program no longer segfaults. I didn't say that's where it segfaults, I said that's where

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Todd Ruth
Aha! That was the inspiration I needed to get the right combination of s. The following bit of code behaves differently under 4.3 vs 4.4: ?php function f($a) { return $a; } $x = array('a','b','c'); foreach (array_keys($x) as $k) { // I think the following line disconnects $y in 4.3 // but

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0

2005-09-15 Thread Todd Ruth
I should have said something about a fix. I guess the fix would be to always unset any variable that is attempting to be assigned by reference before doing anything else with the variable. Yes? That would at least fix BC for the example I gave (and I think Colin's example). If $y were unset

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handlingchange and PHP 4.4.0)

2005-09-15 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Sep 15, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Leigh Makewell wrote: If you don't know why it's wrong to tell them they are stupid, and can't be bother spending an extra 10 seconds formulating a respectable response instead, then you are the wrong person for the job. A cursory survey of the bugs db