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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

341 points · 107 comments · jakeasmith

  1. edg5000 · · focus · HN ↗
    Crazy that the bug went unnoticed. So many sites must have been broken by the "a" bug.
    1. dspillett · · focus · HN ↗
      It only kicks in in the presence of a trailing / - perhaps this is rare where the function is commonly used.
      1. kijin · · focus · HN ↗
        Considering that every WordPress permalink has a trailing slash by default, and given that WordPress is sort of a big deal in PHP, I'm surprised that it took so long to find that bug.
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