Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 17/07/09 8:31 AM, Davey Shafik wrote: ... More importantly, the branch/merge support in SVN is limited to temporary feature/bug branches. You branch, *complete* the feature/bug fix, and then merge it in. After that, if you decide to carry on in your branch, SVN's merge tracking cannot handle

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 17/07/09 12:24 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: ... also using merge tracking is only fun if everybody does it .. because if only some people use it .. they first have to figure out which things have not been merged via svn merge, as svn merge updates its metadata. when merging you can either

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 16/07/09 3:45 PM, shire wrote: ... Do we have a long-term plan of using actual merge commands/tools to merge our branches rather than duplicating commits or manually merging? I think this could speed up development and allow us to have more control over releases, versions, etc. I've seen

[PHP-DEV] OT Godwin's law, was Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote

2009-07-08 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Aside: I'd like to propose an internals-specific mutation of Godwin's law, which might state: As a PHP internals discussion thread grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Perl 6 approaches 1. JG On 07/07/09 6:14 PM, Wez Furlong wrote: -1 for 5.x +1 for 6.0 Otherwise the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote

2009-07-07 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 07/07/09 10:17 AM, Andrei Zmievski wrote: Andrei Zmievski wrote: I would like to ask all developers to voice their opinions of whether it makes sense to add this to 5.3 or to throw it away (either one is fine btw). To keep the process simple flamewar free, please restrict yourself to +/-

Re: [PHP-DEV] simpler syntax for arrays

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 12/17/08 4:29 PM, jay wrote: hi guys. i'm very new to your list so maybe something similar to my proposal has been already posted somewhere at this list but really i don't know how i can make the search. i often pass arrays to functions/methods this way: myfunc(array('key1'='val1',

Re: [PHP-DEV] Array syntax []

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: And my stance hasn't changed either: http://marc.info/?l=php-internalsm=117060700805108w=2 ... +1 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Antony Dovgal wrote: ... Well, to me it matters whether the author is going to care of the thing he's proposing or he's going to disappear right after it's implemented. I didn't realize there was a section of the code flagged 'syntactic sugar' and only a few people maintained that part. it

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Gregory Beaver wrote: Jeff Griffiths wrote: Antony Dovgal wrote: ... Well, to me it matters whether the author is going to care of the thing he's proposing or he's going to disappear right after it's implemented. I didn't realize there was a section of the code flagged 'syntactic sugar

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr/array_slice in []

2007-10-02 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Antony Dovgal wrote: On 01.10.2007 16:32, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: This was not on the table and the time of the 5.3 discussion, I for one think its a bit too much magic. Yeah, too Perl-ish for me. Actually, it's a lot like Python list slicing, which is a great feature and a clear enough

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
chris# wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:30:26 -0500, Larry Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The claim that is still repeated that one has to rewrite everything to be OO in order to port to PHP 5 is, quite simply, FUD. True. But then again, what's the point of using 5 if you're not

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Tijnema wrote: On 7/11/07, Jeff Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... - file_get_contents() PHP 4 = 4.3.0, PHP 5 D'oh! Thanks for the history lesson. - simplexml / DOM parsing / libxml2 - json_encode|decode JSON PECL extension can be installed for PHP = 4.3.0 It *can

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:40 pm, Tijnema wrote: Except for the OO, I don't see anything that can't be done in PHP4, while it can be done in PHP5. Some workarounds are maybe needed, but it mostly doesn't require more than 10 lines of PHP code extra. The SOAP / XML stuff is