On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Nicolas Grekas <nicolas.gre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > See https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2136 > > > > On a technical note this is a potentially breaking change for C > > extensions. Since it is a currently a `zend_bool` its value is > > truthy/falsy; you are now applying specific meaning to values. > > > > Maybe someone else will have more insight into what might be affected > > realistically, but this is one reason this was not implemented this > > way to begin with. > > > > > Note that Nikita's proposal (i.e. stick to 7.0 behavior and ignore the > "nullable" bit) is free from this problem yet really fine also as far as BC > is concerned. > Here's a PR for the revert-to-7.0 + deprecate variant, in case we wish to adopt it: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2137 Nikita
