On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Paul Stavrides wrote:
> For Midgard to be deployable on anything but a segragated server, we have to
> get up with the current PHP/Zend version and that's where a syntax design
> change will get us.
>
...wich in turn will get us more feedback, contributions -> faster
development.
> I know it's a pain for deployed sites, but it's not unlike the change from
> PHP2 to PHP3, there were some good migration tools to make this easier.
True. Also, as long as the midgard-php isn't integrated into the main PHP
stream an '--with-deprecated-syntax' could provide backward compatibility.
And usually one would only upgrade a production server if the newer
version brings functionality that is absolutely needed, or fixes a bug
that isn't acceptable. So with the pain, there would always be a price.
I would miss the syntax though, I've gotten kinda attached to it.
>
> We will be better off for it in the long run.
>
think so too.
> Emiliano wrote:
>
> > (Forgot to Cc this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where this is most certainly
> > relevant)
> >
> > We've been having a number of problets with the lexer/scanner. Paul and I
> > were talking about the possibility of replacing <[...]> with <?[...]?> and
> > &(...); with <?(...)?> (or even <?=...:..?>, which would greatly simplify
> > the parser and make it easier to keep 100% PHP compatibility. It's very
> > possible that we don't even need the IN_SCRIPT patch if we go this route.
> > It would also mean that we will probably better able to keep up with
> > recent PHP releases.
> >
> > I think it's doable to create scripts that automatically convert existing
> > sites since the original patterns are easily detected, but it's obviously
> > a big shit.
> >
> > Thoughts please.
> >
> > Emile
> >
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