Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Kris Craig
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Clint Priest cpri...@zerocue.com wrote: I was thinking more along the lines of a collaborative wiki with inline-threaded comments... -Original Message- From: Jan Ehrhardt [mailto:php...@ehrhardt.nl] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:00 PM To:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, To all readers of this exact thread. No, we won't install a forum on php.net or nowhere else to discuss php.net issues. We have mailing lists, and it works well. We also do IRC discussions and post summaries here from time to time, but that's somehow a personal matter. Please keep focus on

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Lester Caine
Clint Priest wrote: I was thinking more along the lines of a collaborative wiki with inline-threaded comments... Actually just using the wiki better would work, but it tends to get even more messy without someone moderating everything. I know people don't like my stance, but when one is

[PHP-DEV] Wiki account

2012-10-17 Thread Marcello Duarte
Hi, Can I please have a wiki account? Regards, Marcello -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Clint Priest wrote: I was thinking more along the lines of a collaborative wiki with inline-threaded comments... Actually just using the wiki better would work, but it tends to get even more messy without someone

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wiki account

2012-10-17 Thread Pierre Joye
Marcello likes to write a RFC On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Marcello Duarte marcello.dua...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can I please have a wiki account? Regards, Marcello -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2

2012-10-17 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! That makes some sense, still the issue Nikita brought up is that the __getHours() should not be callable. I don't see any use case for this requirement. What *requires* that it won't be callable and why it is so necessary that we introduce additional complexity into the engine just to do

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints / Accessor Syntax

2012-10-17 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! It is foolish to think that these two bits of code are behaviorally different: class Entity { DateTime $last_modified; } The are different because this one looks like a strongly typed variable which brings with it a lot of connotations which aren't immediately obvious, and in fact

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints / Accessor Syntax

2012-10-17 Thread Nikita Popov
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: Type hinting in parameters is a really good thing, and it doesn't transformed PHP in a strongly typed language. It however gave a permission to people to try sneak in strong-typedness through various backdoors

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints / Accessor Syntax

2012-10-17 Thread Nikita Popov
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Clint Priest cpri...@zerocue.com wrote: So the above would actually introduce an get/set accessor rather than a property, correct? Preferably it would a faster C based implementation for the check, but in principle it could also use accessors to achieve the goal.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints / Accessor Syntax

2012-10-17 Thread Nikita Popov
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: Last thing: I agree with Clint and you. If it was early checked, it would be better. But the current type hinting is far better than nothing at all. Yes, we can't lint it, but it was pretty useful a big number No,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints / Accessor Syntax

2012-10-17 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I see this argument crop up with every typehint discussion and just don't understand it at all. Why would you want to check the variable type everywhere? You just assign it and if it doesn't work, then you get an error. Just like it should be. I mean, do you seriously check No, you don't

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2

2012-10-17 Thread Nikita Popov
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: Hi! That makes some sense, still the issue Nikita brought up is that the __getHours() should not be callable. I don't see any use case for this requirement. What *requires* that it won't be callable and why it is

RE: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Clint Priest
That would be a big help, when there are 14 topics brought up in a single email, it generates 24 - 36 replies. I tried to separate the topics with new email threads but that led to cross-topic issues as well. -Original Message- From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints / Accessor Syntax

2012-10-17 Thread Nikita Popov
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: I see this argument crop up with every typehint discussion and just don't understand it at all. Why would you want to check the variable type everywhere? You just assign it and if it doesn't work, then you get an

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2

2012-10-17 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! You have already written seven mails all saying how much complexity this would introduce. Could you maybe elaborate a bit on that? How would it make anything more complex? I mean, the only really Any code that deals with methods would now have to consider - is this regular method or

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2

2012-10-17 Thread Nikita Popov
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: Hi! You have already written seven mails all saying how much complexity this would introduce. Could you maybe elaborate a bit on that? How would it make anything more complex? I mean, the only really Any code that

RE: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2

2012-10-17 Thread Clint Priest
This isn't the way isset() works, isset() will return true for a variable with a value of 0 Exactly my point. Your code (with != NULL) will return false while real isset() will return true. Stas, please see this execution output, your arguments about isset()/unset() are just plain wrong:

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2

2012-10-17 Thread Nikita Popov
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Clint Priest cpri...@zerocue.com wrote: This isn't the way isset() works, isset() will return true for a variable with a value of 0 Exactly my point. Your code (with != NULL) will return false while real isset() will return true. Stas, please see this

RE: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2

2012-10-17 Thread Clint Priest
I've been re-reading the last few days of posts to collect what is to be changed about the RFC on what has seemed to come to a consensus and my apologies Stas, I did not catch exactly what you meant by this statement: Exactly my point. Your code (with != NULL) will return false while real

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints / Accessor Syntax

2012-10-17 Thread Amaury Bouchard
2012/10/17 Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com No, you don't get an error. You'd get an error in compiled language. In dynamic language, your client gets an error when his site is launched and instead of happy launch his users get white screens. To avoid that, you'd need to add checks - or

RE: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Interfaces

2012-10-17 Thread Clint Priest
I acquiesce to this issue, I agree that declaring a property in a class which implements an interface which has designated an accessor does indeed satisfy the accessor. But I think it would be very poor programming practice to do it. Anyone else have anything to say about this issue?

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Parallel run-tests

2012-10-17 Thread zoe slattery
Nuno - just a PS to the last note. It is (mainly) the task allocation across processors which means that running tests in parallel on a 4-way machine is not 4 times as fast as running them in sequence. Here are some results from a run on my 2-way Mac -

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
(sorry if this is a double-post, I finger-fudged pretty hard) Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com writes: hi, To all readers of this exact thread. No, we won't install a forum on php.net or nowhere else to discuss php.net issues. We have mailing lists, and it works well. Just to throw in the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Ángel González
On 17/10/12 11:43, Pierre Joye wrote: It is about hi jacking discussions with totally irrelevant topics, repetitive, nonconstructive posts in rows, in all possible ways. The issue is that the proposed solution (a forum) does not solve irrelevant topics being mixed into a discussion about a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: That said, it's a little ridiculous to expect people to figure out a new reader or whatever. Luckily, forums are jut a web version of USENET. There are a few existing tools that take a mailing list and mirror it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: That said, it's a little ridiculous to expect people to figure out a new reader or whatever. Luckily, forums are jut a web version of USENET. There are a few existing

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
On 17-10-2012 20:42, Pierre Joye wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: That said, it's a little ridiculous to expect people to figure out a new reader or whatever. Luckily, forums are jut a web version of USENET. There are a few existing tools

Re: [PHP-DEV] pdo_pgsql Boolean Issues

2012-10-17 Thread Will Fitch
This request was given a +1 from Wez - does anyone else want to provide feedback? If not, can we get it merged to trunk and queued for release? On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Will Fitch willfi...@php.net wrote: Going to bump this thread. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62593

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Maciek Sokolewicz maciek.sokolew...@gmail.com wrote: NNTP works great! The only pain in the ass is that it's hellishly slow and very very often times out, making the reading of longer threads (like this one) take... ages... Perhaps it could be mirrored / load

Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?

2012-10-17 Thread Clint Priest
I was really referring to another tool to collaborate on an RFC document, something where comment threads can be started and replied to from within the context/section of the RFC that the comment belongs to. Ive looked at a few other wikis and some have this capability... Github could be

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wiki account

2012-10-17 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: Marcello likes to write a RFC On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Marcello Duarte marcello.dua...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can I please have a wiki account? People who cannot read do not get wiki karma: