Re: [PHP-DEV] Release scheduling, branching NEWS for 5.4

2012-09-04 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Stas! On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: And no BC in 5.5 as well. Which will cause us some issue for 5.5 as master actually has BC breaks as far as I remember. We accept binary API changes in 5.5, Right, that's totally fine. but only very

Re: [PHP-DEV] $obj-attr::method() is not allowed

2012-09-04 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! The problem is that the only formal definition of the language _is_ the parser - there's no grammar outside zend_language_scanner.l/zend_langauge_parser.y. I'm not sure - why exactly is it a problem here? I can understand how having such document might be useful and interesting (not

[PHP-DEV] On BC and interfaces

2012-09-04 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! Given many discussions on the list about changing stuff in PHP, I'd like to bring everybody's attention to comment by Linus Torvalds in this topic: https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8LKJk It talks about Linux kernel and discussion has next to nothing to do with PHP,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:27:12 +0200, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: to be gained vs. the additional risk. And there is little to no benefit in a model where rewinding a closed iterator is allowed, so the threshold for acceptable risk is very low. This is not a difficult case at

Re: [PHP-DEV] $obj-attr::method() is not allowed

2012-09-04 Thread Morgan L. Owens
On 2012-09-04 18:36, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! The problem is that the only formal definition of the language _is_ the parser - there's no grammar outside zend_language_scanner.l/zend_langauge_parser.y. I'm not sure - why exactly is it a problem here? I can understand how having such document

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Gustavo Lopes wrote: Second, E_STRICT exists to encourage good OOP practices. There is a lot of code that generates E_STRICT that does what it was intended to do (ask Lester). By definition, code that's not supposed to generate E_STRICT messages but does is buggy, but the fact that some code

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: How many of the major PHP user projects ARE currently strict compliant? And how many are still requiring E_STRICT switched off in PHP5.4? This is a development and very useful. PHP does not enforce this mode. And like

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings

2012-09-04 Thread David Zülke
On 03.09.2012, at 09:37, Jannik Zschiesche he...@apfelbox.net wrote: The main problem arises from the ambiguity for $array[-1] for arrays. But this is easily solvable: just introduce a slice operator. $array[:-1] and the ambiguity is gone. That would return an array containing the last item

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: How many of the major PHP user projects ARE currently strict compliant? And how many are still requiring E_STRICT switched off in PHP5.4? This is a development and very useful. PHP does not enforce this mode. And like any other errors, it only ends in your logs. But this has

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Sherif Ramadan
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: How many of the major PHP user projects ARE currently strict compliant? And how many are still requiring E_STRICT switched off in PHP5.4? This is a development and very useful. PHP does not enforce

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Sherif Ramadan wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: How many of the major PHP user projects ARE currently strict compliant? And how many are still requiring E_STRICT switched off in PHP5.4? This is a development and very useful.

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Lester, On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: ??? OH YES IT DOES !!! MANY times I get a a few lines of text on a white screen ... Switch off E_STRICT and everything works fine ... as it was on PHP5.2 If you have any doubts about how to configure your

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: ??? OH YES IT DOES !!! MANY times I get a a few lines of text on a white screen ... Switch off E_STRICT and everything works fine ... as it was on PHP5.2 If you have any doubts about how to configure

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Jannik Zschiesche
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2012 um 15:09 schrieb Lester Caine: I keep being told that there is nothing wrong with E_STRICT, and again someone has said that it does NOT cause crashes. I beg to differ here - IT DOES! Now if you are saying that I need to document these crashes as they SHOULD

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Peter Lind
On 4 September 2012 15:09, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: ??? OH YES IT DOES !!! MANY times I get a a few lines of text on a white screen ... Switch off E_STRICT and everything works fine ...

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings

2012-09-04 Thread Tjerk Meesters
On 4 Sep, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: Hi! The terminology negative indexing seems to imply that the feature should work with arrays. To restrict it to just strings might involve creating a term one would only associate with strings. I do not see any way

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk wrote: ??? OH YES IT DOES !!! MANY times I get a a few lines of text on a white screen ... Switch off E_STRICT and everything works

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Peter Lind wrote: From php.ini: ; display_errors ; Default Value: On ; Development Value: On ; Production Value: Off In a production environment with display_errors off, E_STRICT doesn't crash anything. Actually, even with it on, it doesn't crash anything - shitty code does, by creating

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
Using third party code - joomla - only difference between working and not working is switching E_STRICT on. With display_errors=off one gets a white screen. I was not surprised as I've had this all the way through with code from many sources. Yes a lot of the time you just get the error

[PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Add simplified password hashing API

2012-09-04 Thread Anthony Ferrara
Hello all, I'm opening the vote for the simplified password hashing API indicated here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_hash Please vote, Thanks, Anthony

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings

2012-09-04 Thread Tjerk Anne Meesters
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM, David Zülke david.zue...@bitextender.comwrote: On 03.09.2012, at 09:37, Jannik Zschiesche he...@apfelbox.net wrote: The main problem arises from the ambiguity for $array[-1] for arrays. But this is easily solvable: just introduce a slice operator.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Alex Aulbach
2012/9/4 Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com: On 09/03/2012 04:31 PM, Alex Aulbach wrote: 2012/9/4 Gustavo Lopes glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt: Following this logic, we'd have to convert all E_NOTICE and E_STRICT to fatal errors or exceptions - they are usually produced by programming errors and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Exceptions Vs Errors

2012-09-04 Thread Alex Aulbach
2012/9/3 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: more ... try/catch always seems like 'I can't be bothered so just do this if you can' where it would be much tidier if file_put_contents(); was written so it simply finished with an error if it has a problem? Hm. I want to bring in some thoughts.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings

2012-09-04 Thread Sharon Levy
Greetings. The main problem arises from the ambiguity for $array[-1] for arrays. But this is easily solvable: just introduce a slice operator. $array[:-1] and the ambiguity is gone. That would return an array containing the last item as the sole member, not the last item itself. Which

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: never heard of that one before. for example, running ?php for($i=0;$i100;$i++){ $foo=foo_.$i; ${$foo}-bar = 123; } echo done; gives me 100 E_STRICT, but still executes just fine and prints done at the end. the

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Ferenc Kovacs wrote: Using third party code - joomla - only difference between working and not working is switching E_STRICT on. With display_errors=off one gets a white screen. I was not surprised as I've had this all the way through with code from many sources. Yes a lot of the

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 09/04/2012 09:36 AM, Adam Richardson wrote: I think Ferenc is correct in that this sounds like there's a custom error handler somewhere. If the custom error handler collects error info and then throws an exception (as has been detailed in various blog posts as one manner of unifying the

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com wrote: Only on a new E_STRICT. Even with E_STRICT off by default, custom error handlers are still called, and I think Lester said that turning E_STRICT off made it work. So if this is the cause, then it has nothing to do with

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
2012.09.04. 18:58, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com ezt írta: On 09/04/2012 09:36 AM, Adam Richardson wrote: I think Ferenc is correct in that this sounds like there's a custom error handler somewhere. If the custom error handler collects error info and then throws an exception (as has

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: 2012.09.04. 18:58, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com ezt írta: On 09/04/2012 09:36 AM, Adam Richardson wrote: I think Ferenc is correct in that this sounds like there's a custom error handler somewhere. If the custom

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Adam Richardson wrote: I was second-guessing my recall I had a similar issue way back, after Rasmus pointed out that the custom error handler is called even if E_STRICT is off. However, I just looked back at my framework code, I see I'm checking to make sure the error level matches, just as

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Adam Richardson wrote: I was second-guessing my recall I had a similar issue way back, after Rasmus pointed out that the custom error handler is called even if E_STRICT is off. However, I just looked back at my framework

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Adam Richardson wrote: If I have any custom error handling I don't know about it. I don't think ADOdb or SMARTY adds anything, and I don't load anything. Well, Smarty can influence error handling: http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/api.mute.expected.errors.tpl I think I am right in saying that this

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
Now that you have changed the subject, I feel free to break in with a voice from userland. Rasmus Lerdorf in php.internals (Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:57:59 -0700): Even with E_STRICT off (...) Sometimes it is not easy for users to turn off E_STRICT. Lester already mentioned one scenario: ISP's tend to

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Joomla doesn't use either anyway, and neither do a number of the other sites I've been porting, but we still get problems. Well, just to be sure, have you searched the entire codebase of one of the existing sites

[PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Nikita Popov
Hey folks! Some people asked me what the advantages of using an AST-based parsing/compilation process are, so I put together a few quick notes in an RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ast_based_parsing_compilation_process It would be nice to get a few comments from other core devs on this. Nikita

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 09/04/2012 12:20 PM, Jan Ehrhardt wrote: Now that you have changed the subject, I feel free to break in with a voice from userland. Rasmus Lerdorf in php.internals (Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:57:59 -0700): Even with E_STRICT off (...) Sometimes it is not easy for users to turn off E_STRICT.

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I keep being told that there is nothing wrong with E_STRICT, and again someone has said that it does NOT cause crashes. I beg to differ here - IT DOES! If you have a scenario where E_STRICT causes PHP to crash - please submit a bug to bugs.php.net. If this is your application that is

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
Rasmus Lerdorf in php.internals (Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:15:50 -0700): Just call error_reporting() at the beginning of your script. Which ain't possible in drupal (or hardly). You do not write any code. You just click together modules, written by others. Jan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Sean Coates
Some people asked me what the advantages of using an AST-based parsing/compilation process are, so I put together a few quick notes in an RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ast_based_parsing_compilation_process It would be nice to get a few comments from other core devs on this. Pardon my

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Andrew Faulds
On 04/09/12 21:45, Sean Coates wrote: Pardon my obviously amateur question, but would you build an AST-based compiler/parser to generate the same (minus the ones you intend to eliminate) opcodes to run on the VM in the same way as the current compiler does? Sure. We're changing the route we go

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Lester Caine
Jan Ehrhardt wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf in php.internals (Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:15:50 -0700): Just call error_reporting() at the beginning of your script. Which ain't possible in drupal (or hardly). You do not write any code. You just click together modules, written by others. Actually Jan -

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Jon Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikita Popov nikita@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks! Some people asked me what the advantages of using an AST-based parsing/compilation process are, so I put together a few quick notes in an RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ast_based_parsing_compilation_process

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Andrew Faulds
On 04/09/12 23:00, Adam Jon Richardson wrote: I''m not a core developer, but I do have some concerns about this type of approach: As noted in the RFC, most languages do use an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), however, as is also noted in the RFC, PHP opcodes are regenerated by request, which makes

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Jon Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Andrew Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: APC will make things faster, though, you're missing that. And optimisations, which an AST would help, would make it even faster. Respectfully, I didn't miss that, and I alluded to that potential in my response (did you read all of

Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT 'errors' - was Are exceptions allowed in php core?

2012-09-04 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
Lester Caine in php.internals (Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:30:34 +0100): Jan Ehrhardt wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf in php.internals (Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:15:50 -0700): Just call error_reporting() at the beginning of your script. Which ain't possible in drupal (or hardly). You do not write any code. You just

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Levi Morrison
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Adam Jon Richardson adamj...@gmail.com wrote: However, as Knuth has said, It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Jon Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Levi Morrison morrison.l...@gmail.com wrote: This is probably why the section in the RFC is so small . . . :) The section covering the potential for potential optimizations isn't so small :) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Jon Richardson
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Adam Jon Richardson adamj...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Levi Morrison morrison.l...@gmail.com wrote: This is probably why the section in the RFC is so small . . . :) The section covering the potential for potential optimizations isn't so