Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Stan Vass
It's amazing to me this has become such a long discussion. The facts are simple: 1) People don't ask for the other parse errors even half as often as they as for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM 2) They do so because it looks like gibberish to them, so it looks unlikely to be a common thing you can

[PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Haarbrink
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Stan Vass [mailto:sv_for...@fmethod.com] Verzonden: maandag 1 november 2010 10:19 Aan: internals@lists.php.net Onderwerp: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON Urgentie: Laag It's amazing to me this has become such a

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Arvids Godjuks
Agreed, and really - my experience is that googling non-standard error message usually give instant result. Googling for a common error message could become a big time investment pointing to different software even if you point to search engine for what software to look. 2010/11/1 Dennis

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Quadling
On 30 October 2010 01:47, admin ad...@codeangel.org wrote: WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they come across it.  Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON so I don't have to hear about it constantly? Those that

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Dennis Haarbrink wrote: Come on people, what exactly is the problem with a once-in-a-lifetime investment of 5 seconds of your time to google some stupid error message. Something you, as a developer, spend your life doing. Please, stop complaining

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Stefan Marr
On 01 Nov 2010, at 12:06, Alexander Schrijver wrote: Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes, by not changing this you'r annoying thousands of people. Instead of going for this cosmetic nonsense you should help those people on the lemon branch. I am insulted every time I

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread James Butler
+1 This solves lots of other problems we have and will have in the future. -- James Butler Sent from my iPhone On 1 Nov 2010, at 12:00, Stefan Marr p...@stefan-marr.de wrote: On 01 Nov 2010, at 12:06, Alexander Schrijver wrote: Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes,

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:59:54PM +0100, Stefan Marr wrote: On 01 Nov 2010, at 12:06, Alexander Schrijver wrote: Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes, by not changing this you'r annoying thousands of people. Instead of going for this cosmetic nonsense you should

RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread James Butler
-Original Message- From: Alexander Schrijver [mailto:alexander.schrij...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 November 2010 12:19 To: Stefan Marr Cc: Dennis Haarbrink; Stan Vass; internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON On

[PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
Oops, should've sent this to the list too. - Forwarded message from Alexander Schrijver alexander.schrij...@gmail.com - Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:28:59 +0100 From: Alexander Schrijver alexander.schrij...@gmail.com To: James Butler james.but...@edigitalresearch.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV]

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Nov 01 13:30:58, Alexander Schrijver wrote: Oops, should've sent this to the list too. - Forwarded message from Alexander Schrijver alexander.schrij...@gmail.com - Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:28:59 +0100 From: Alexander Schrijver alexander.schrij...@gmail.com To: James Butler

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: It's the policy: There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to the amount of PHP work that came out of Israel, and it is a good reminder that

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:23 PM, James Butler james.but...@edigitalresearch.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Schrijver [mailto:alexander.schrij...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 November 2010 12:19 To: Stefan Marr Cc: Dennis Haarbrink; Stan Vass; internals@lists.php.net Subject:

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Alexander Schrijver alexander.schrij...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: It's the policy: There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to the amount of PHP work that came out of

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Nov 01 13:43:14, Alexander Schrijver wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: It's the policy: There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to the amount of PHP work that came out of Israel, and it is a good

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Nathan Rixham
Stan Vass wrote: It's amazing to me this has become such a long discussion. The facts are simple: 1) People don't ask for the other parse errors even half as often as they as for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM 2) They do so because it looks like gibberish to them, so it looks unlikely to be a common

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: Makes sense, just alias it and change the error message thus keeping bc. Please just move on. Everything possible has been said already. If we feel like there are critical issues introduced by this error message, then we

[PHP-DEV] Re: Bug #47643 - array_diff slowdown

2010-11-01 Thread Lonny K
Can we get some opinions on this. I'm willing to make the changes, but I want to get some sort of consensus on this. Basically I believe the problem is that patch 42838 should be reverted and the documentation should be updated. Someone on IRC had disagreed with me so I want more opinions

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bug #47643 - array_diff slowdown

2010-11-01 Thread Felipe Pena
Hi, 2010/11/1 Lonny K lon...@gmail.com Can we get some opinions on this. I'm willing to make the changes, but I want to get some sort of consensus on this. Basically I believe the problem is that patch 42838 should be reverted and the documentation should be updated. Someone on IRC had

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they come across it. Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON so I don't have to hear about it constantly? Those that disagree don't

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Felipe Pena
2010/11/1 Richard Lynch c...@l-i-e.com On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they come across it. Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON so I don't have to hear

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 11/1/10 1:47 PM, Felipe Pena wrote: 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch c...@l-i-e.com On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they come across it. Can we please change the token name to

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 alpha

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi, we're a bit further along now; and with the typehinting resolved (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/62298/focus=62858) I want to start started with PHP 5.4 with the first alpha on Wednesday, November 24th. There are a few things that need sorting out and/or clarification: -

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Annotations

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi! The RFC on annotations for PHP http://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations suggests to add new syntax to the language to provide meta data for use in reflection. This sort of meta data is usually provided in the form of docblocks, which this RFC does *not* state isn't good enough. The discussion

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Rewriting of the parser into Lemon

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Nov 01 15:33:59, Derick Rethans wrote: Hi! Work has been done on rewriting the PHP parser to Lemon in a specific branch: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/LEMON/ Right now, the Lemon parser is not actually faster than the current bison parser, so I would suggest not to

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Adding APC

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Derick Rethans wrote: I understand that the general idea is to bundle APC with a future version of PHP. Right now, APC doesn't really compile for trunk because of internal changes. However, for PHP 5.3 it's getting into a pretty good shape. In order to add APC, what

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Delegate type hint/checks to alternative locations (Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha)

2010-11-01 Thread Felipe Pena
Hi, 2010/10/19 Derick Rethans der...@php.net Hi! On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Derick Rethans wrote: I've spend some more time on this, and have attached a new patch that: - Removes the strict type verification, changing it back into typehints only. - Keeps the current syntax so that

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 alpha

2010-11-01 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/62298/focus=62858) I want to start started with PHP 5.4 with the first alpha on Wednesday, November 24th. There are a few things that need sorting I just wanted to remind we have ZendCon this week, which means some people who might have

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Annotations

2010-11-01 Thread guilhermebla...@gmail.com
Hi Derick, I'm all for it. Although I have karma, I'm not an active PHP core contributor, but I would like to participate of such discussion, mainly because I have plenty experience with Annotations from another languages. I'll spend some time re-reading the entire Annotations thread and come up