This "bug" has been resolved since 01-Mar-2012 when 5.4 was released, and there's a very straight-forward explanation of it if people would just RTFM. This is

This "bug" has been resolved since 01-Mar-2012 when 5.4 was released, and there's a very straight-forward explanation of it if people would just RTFM. This is the worst part of the PHP community - all the in-fighting when the core developers don't bend over backwards to accommodate short-sighted programmers who know their conflicting demand is the one that should be heard.