As one of the authors who is trying to hit this moving target, I don't think how an API change in PHP 5 is going to mess up something in my book should be a factor in deciding if it should be done. It is annoying as all hell, but last I checked PHP doesn't revolve around publishers and their authors...
I'm +1 for the change, if that means anything :) John On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:00, George Schlossnagle wrote: > On Mar 23, 2004, at 6:52 AM, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > > > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:58, Georg Richter wrote: > >>> I agree with Marcus (and I think Andi) here. If its not too much > >>> trouble > >>> OO interface to mysqli should IMHO follow the same conventions other > >>> OO > >>> extensions do, > >> > >> beside changing c-code it's > >> - changing documentation (english, german, spain and french) > >> - changing all samples > >> - changing testcases (incl. ~300 testscripts on my machine) > >> - changing ~200 slides > >> - changing 2 articles > >> > >> and 2 authors told me they don't have a chance to change it anymore in > >> their books, they will be printed these days. > > I've had stuff (not mysqli) change underneath me in my book. It's > annoying, but it's a problem inherent to writing to a moving target. > > George -- -=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=- John Coggeshall http://www.coggeshall.org/ The PHP Developer's Handbook http://www.php-handbook.com/ -=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=--=~=- -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
