On 1 July 2015 at 14:37, Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, this is something that has been bothering me for a while now. > > The TC, and the mailing list is full of some really smart people. However, > smart people can overlook things too and smart people can spend months in a > debate that other people already thought about. > > Other languages have open processes too, other languages have mailing > lists and working groups and much of the same discussions we do. > > ----- > > I think it would be really awesome if a small subgroup of the TC could do > a monthly or bi-monthly chat (hangouts, skype, in person, whatever) with > working groups from other languages. > > I have talked to several PHP-Internals people and they are generally in > favour. Knowing some of these people they have a ton to contribute - if we > could save just a single debate or understand a domain better it'd be worth > it IMO. > > What do you guys think? > Quite a few members of TC39 are already deeply involved in various other language communities, although I don't know about PHP in particular. That has often proved helpful. In general, anybody on a language committee ought to have a certain degree of knowledge and interest in a broader variety of languages. OTOH, I believe that individual cross involvement is far more fertile than unfocussed group meetings. /Andreas
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