Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

[email protected] (Rouven Weßling)
Newsgroups php.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31 Aug 2014, at 20:34, Chris Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have on occasion come across code that uses split(), more often than not
> as if it were explode() with a literal delimiter.
> 
> If ereg is to be removed (for which I am +1) does anyone have any
> objections to making split() into an alias of explode()? This would also be
> consistent with the join() -> implode() alias.

The big disadvantage to that would be, that those people who use more advanced features will have a much harder time to figure out what went wrong. I think this is better left alone.

Best regards
Rouven
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