Hi Rasmus:
could we well docuemnt this(changelog) to avoding such bad thing happen?
and sure, I agree and know what you are worried, also I am very
respect you .
so here is the thing, if I can't get your support, I think I
should darw back the proposal.
thanks
2011/8/15 Rasmus Lerdorf <[email protected]>:
> On 08/15/2011 01:51 AM, Laruence wrote:
>> Hi Lester:
>> I totally agree with you about bc break things,
>>
>> but actully I don't think this proposal will bring a big bc break,
>> it's a new approach , but not a big change,
>>
>> I am meaning that the old codes can work fine because rarely codes
>> depends on a negative length.
>>
>> do you agree?
>
> I agree that this is not a "big" BC break. However, my argument is that
> small BC breaks like this are actually much worse than "big" BC breaks.
> A big and obvious BC break is usually easy to deal with. An accumulation
> of small subtle BC breaks that rarely hit you and then only on certain
> input strings, those are the ones that kill you.
>
> -Rasmus
>
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