[PHP-DEV] Re: Unicode-compatible extensions (was Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting throwing a fatal error)

2005-08-24 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Zeev Suraski wrote: At 17:37 24/08/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Steph wrote: Hi Rasmus, Steph wrote: If there's the capability to run PHP 6 without Unicode support, surely there's no reason for extensions to lose back compatability when they're updated...? That's going to be

[PHP-DEV] Re: Unicode-compatible extensions (was Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting throwing a fatal error)

2005-08-24 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 17:46 24/08/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Zeev Suraski wrote: At 17:37 24/08/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Steph wrote: Hi Rasmus, Steph wrote: If there's the capability to run PHP 6 without Unicode support, surely there's no reason for extensions to lose back compatability when

[PHP-DEV] Re: Unicode-compatible extensions (was Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting throwing a fatal error)

2005-08-24 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Zeev Suraski wrote: Why? A great deal of users will be running with unicode semantics turned off, and I don't see a good reason to break source compatibility for them. For example, if Foo Inc. wrote a module for PHP 4, and they want to migrate to PHP 6 - it should be a simple recompile.

[PHP-DEV] Re: Unicode-compatible extensions (was Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting throwing a fatal error)

2005-08-24 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 18:05 24/08/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Zeev Suraski wrote: Why? A great deal of users will be running with unicode semantics turned off, and I don't see a good reason to break source compatibility for them. For example, if Foo Inc. wrote a module for PHP 4, and they want to migrate to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Unicode-compatible extensions (was Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting throwing a fatal error)

2005-08-24 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 08:05 AM 8/24/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Zeev Suraski wrote: Why? A great deal of users will be running with unicode semantics turned off, and I don't see a good reason to break source compatibility for them. For example, if Foo Inc. wrote a module for PHP 4, and they want to migrate