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This bug was apparently “not a bug”: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51672 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51672

• rll 15y ago
  Well, it wasn't a bug. That was more of a feature request which is now implemented.
  • evincarofautumn 15y ago
    It’s been a feature request for at least eight years, it should never have arisen in the first place, and it should have been a one-line fix even if it had arisen. I don’t mean to knock PHP too badly; it’s quite useful, even if it is rather quirky. I just find it so unfortunate that this silly thing got so out of hand.
    • smsm42 15y ago
      It's not "one liner", and couldn't be if you understand how PHP engine works. But it wasn't super-hard to implement, just nobody got to it till now. It did not "get out of hand" by any measure. Once there was a consensus that this feature is needed by the significant part of PHP community, it was implemented. Could it be done earlier? Maybe, so could a lot of other nice things.