Posted by Jonas Werres on 01/05/08 17:31

> YMMV. I've found in many real-life instances they are faster - because
> you don't have the overhead of creating the objects.
It's only importent what the developers think.

> No, they can't do anything mysqli can't. But so what? That's no
> argument. It's just a different way of doing things.
It is, when have to think about paying someone to do the development.

> And as to how long somebody will work on them - for a long, long time.
Even ereg is not marked depricated.

> They haven't even been deprecated yet - and something is deprecated
> years before it's dropped. Plus there are probably billions of LOC
> which use them.
As there are billions of LOCs useing &=? Or var?
Hello, this is PHP!

> But you never answered my question. Have you heard they might be
> dropped? Give me some references, instead of guesses.
Nothing I could cite, no.

> And just because there is something new doesn't mean the old is unusable!
No, not usable. But still stupid to teach it to a newbie.

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