Posted by Richard Lynch on 04/20/05 08:03

On Tue, April 19, 2005 7:45 pm, Roger B.A. Klorese said:
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>
>>Why in the world should we be forced to follow your narrow-minded
>>so-called "standard"? :-)
>>
>>
>
> Hint: smileys indicate that you're joking. If you're joking, I don't
> get what's humorous -- please explain. If you're making a serious point
> but trying to have the rhetorical equivalent of "no offense, but..." you
> should probably know that any time someone says "no offense, but..."
> they really mean to offend but get off scot-free.

Okay, I meant to offend. :-)

Happy? :-) :-) :-)

>>Furthermore, the & as separator pre-dates & by *years* and billions
>> of
>>lines of code could be affected by altering the default.
>>So, really, Backwards Compatibility alone makes this a no-brainer default
>>value of: &
>>
> So default behaviors should never change?! Absurd. you should be
> notified that they are changed, and should have a mechanism to configure
> for the previous behavior... but they have to be allowed to change as
> standards do.

Please feel free to take this up with the Developers on PHP-Dev or
PHP-Internals or whatever and argue the issue with them.

But if it's going to break a billion scripts, it's probably not gonna
happen to follow a "standard" that isn't the only game in town. XHTML is
not ubiquitous. [shrug]

Since there are still browsers in use that will choke on & in the URL,
last time I checked, you're pretty much fighting for a lost cause, as far
as I'm concerned.

Good Luck!

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