Hi!
nicely put but not in agreement with the PHP world. First we cannot add a new feature like this in a mini release as it comes with an API change. And second PHP is not anywhere close so we'd have to do it in a PHP 5.4 and personally I would like to avoid it.
You meant "PHP 6 not anywhere close"? well, if we keep adding completely new stuff to 5.3 then 5.3 would not be anywhere close so what we earn by that? I understand that we all want new and cool stuff in PHP, but endlessly delaying 5.3 is not the answer. And this feature is a big thing, it's not adding yet another module or function - it should be thoroughly reviewed and seen how it affect all other things. It's probably very cool addition, but yet more reason to consider all the side effects and surprises on the way. Pushing it in now would mean we'd either have to delay 5.3 yet another half-year or we'd release buggy 5.3 and then we'd be bound by API compatibility and couldn't fix things that we might want to fix. I think as much as we want to add yet another cool feature - we have to release versions for the users to actually be able to enjoy features we already added, from time to time. And time for 5.3 is very much due, and we still have a bunch of work to do on it.
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