On 17.09.2019 at 16:25, Nikita Popov wrote: # > I just noticed that the hash extension has a default-disabled --with-mhash > option, that enables a couple of additional mhash_* functions. From what I > was able to gather, mhash was an old extension that was superseded by hash, > and hash provides a compatibility layer for mhash. > > Should these functions be deprecated? Should this compatibility layer be > kept indefinitely?
The documentation[1] states for more than ten years now: | This extension is obsoleted by Hash. So I think actually deprecating these functions for PHP 8 is appropriate. [1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.mhash.php> -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
