Hello Lukas,

  I added 'MFH namespace' to the TODO list. Otherwise I am fine. For the
given amount of stuff with my name on it I'd need some time though.

marcus

Monday, August 27, 2007, 11:30:22 AM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> In the spirit of forwards compabitility I think the 5.3 release will we 
> very important regardless if we keep or remove the unicode switch in 
> PHP6. From my POV 5.1 and 5.2 have mainly covered stability and 
> performance improvements on top of the addition of several important 
> extensions like PDO, Json etc.

> In terms of changes to the actual language the main thing that sticks in 
> my head where things like E_STRICT and is_a vs. instanceOf. So now with 
> 5.3 we might want to look ahead towards PHP6 and make sure that we add 
> whatever makes sense to have in 5.x that will ease the life for people 
> writing forward compatible code for PHP6. It might also be a chance to 
> revisit the question of how we want to approach strictness and deprecation.

> Forward compatibility:
> - binary cast
> - namespaces
> - ...

> Strictness:
> - What is our philisophy, is OO more strict than procedural or is there 
> no such differntiation? I remember the discussions about dynamic member 
> variables, number incrementing throwing notices inconsistently, 
> signature rewriting. I fear I am opening a can of worms with this one. 
> Although I disagree with the bulk of the decisions on this topic in the 
> past I am not trying to reopen the discussions, I just hope to get a 
> clearer definition on our philosiphie for future discussions

> Deprecation:
> - Split of deprecation from E_STRICT
> - Rule for deprecation

> See the todo wiki for some hints on things currently planned (or that I 
> heard people thinking about planning):

> http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP53
> http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP60

> regards,
> Lukas




Best regards,
 Marcus

-- 
PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Reply via email to