Andrei,
PHP represents a major change on every aspect of the language, I think
you gotta appreciate it that even if it were to be released today
there would be sometime before it can certified as production ready in
terms of stability and performance. I'd go on a limb and say that PHP6
is probably 3-4 years away from being production material and that's
assuming it gets released in the next 8-12 months. During that time
people still need to develop applications, which are getting
increasingly complex and any helpful tool/feature would be an asset.
On 7-Jul-09, at 4:52 PM, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
PHP 6 is too far off in a practical sense (sorry Andrei) from the
time where I can see myself using it in production or other people
benefiting from this function. The (simpler) variant of provided
patch is what is currently being used on production, if it can go
into 5.3, which I see myself using soon, then there is a tangible
benefit from making this a public feature (reduce the amount of
custom patching) and spending the time to refine it for public
consumption and making it PHP 6 ready. If it can only be added in
PHP6, then the amount of interest I personally have towards further
evolution of this feature is very minimal.
So for me personally, the practically of the feature's deployment
is critical.
Ilia, I understand what you're saying, but with this kind of
attitude PHP 6 might never arrive if we all keep putting only the
things that are practical for our (personal) usage into 5.3, 5.4,
etc. The best way to shorten the time horizon of 6 is to treat it as
the primary target of the development effort.
-Andrei
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