2010-03-13 19:33, Rasmus Lerdorf skrev:
No, not ok. We will call the next release whatever we like. People who
have written books or articles about PHP 6 inferring they knew what the
final state of PHP 6 would be were misguided. We never got to the point
of a final feature set much less a release date.
I think I made it clear I have no sympathy for the people responsible
for those books.
However, I have lots of sympathy for the *readers* of those books!
And the readers of the PHP manual.
And the readers of Andrei's slides and of various articles on the net.
And I have lots of sympathy for everyone who will see such resources
show up when they google for a solution to a problem.
Maybe my words sounded a bit critical and unappreciative. That was not
my intention. I have tons of respect for all of you who make PHP such a
wonderful language to use and teach.
I am not qualified to suggest specifics about the technical route
forward and have therefore carefully avoided anything that looks like
casting a vote about "5.4".
If, however, skipping version 6 will lead to less confusion and reduce
the amount of education needed about the changes in the language, why
not chose the easier path?
Or to put this differently: Of course the core contributors are at
liberty to call the next major version 6, but I think there is wisdom in
going straight to 7.
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