Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

2015-01-21 Thread Kristopher
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Tony Marston tonymars...@hotmail.com wrote: Because I would rather fight for valid principles than give in. To quote Emiliano Zapata It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. I don't think constructors are what he had in mind.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

2015-01-21 Thread Kristopher
at 9:50 AM, Tony Marston tonymars...@hotmail.com wrote: Kristopher wrote in message news:CAF9U7z-bkYRDwAL8CA4_= 1dhorl0evp_mzwf6qwqscwdf7n...@mail.gmail.com... On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Tony Marston tonymars...@hotmail.com wrote: @tony: What's really interesting is that all

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

2015-01-20 Thread Kristopher
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Tony Marston tonymars...@hotmail.com wrote: @tony: What's really interesting is that all this time you've spent arguing could have been used to update your code and make this no longer an issue for you. @everyone: Would an RFC be necessary to update the PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Debugging code ...

2014-11-04 Thread Kristopher
On Tue Nov 04 2014 at 9:31:06 AM Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Every IDE I've used has always working nicely with docblock annotation and typing and has provided the facilities people seem to think should be built in to PHP. You understand you don't have to use these new features,

Re: [PHP-DEV] New globals for PUT and DELETE

2014-10-14 Thread Kristopher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Let’s add $_REQUEST_BODY and $_QUERY_STRING and make them aliases of $_GET and $_POST then. Because they’re aliases (by-reference superglobals), there’s no additional memory consumption, but we finally have saner names.

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Move phpng to master

2014-07-27 Thread Kristopher
Instead of endless, useless bickering, how about everyone both for and against merging jump in and start helping with phpng (docs, api cleanup/stabilization, but fixes, etc)? Imagine how much more stable and ready to merge it would be if you concentrated the saber rattling energy towards actually

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)

2014-07-14 Thread Kristopher
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Alain Williams a...@phcomp.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 06:09:22PM +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote: On 14 Jul 2014, at 18:01, Alain Williams a...@phcomp.co.uk wrote: But if you have: function foo(int $a) { ... $a = 3 / 2;

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Anonymous Classes

2013-09-24 Thread Kristopher
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Terence Copestake terence.copest...@gmail.com wrote: Playing devil's advocate here, could this feature make the language more expressive? Take for example an API where you'd typically wrap a method call in try/catch blocks to handle the various outcomes e.g.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-18 Thread Kristopher
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Daniel Convissor dani...@analysisandsolutions.com wrote: As someone who writes a lot of open source (and proprietary) code that gets run on machines that I have no control over, implementing this proposal will complicate my life. Every time I make a function