Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Proposal] var keyword deprecation/removal

2016-03-06 Thread Tony Marston
"Lester Caine" wrote in message news:56dae00f.2030...@lsces.co.uk... On 05/03/16 11:26, Fleshgrinder wrote: PHP being a mess is still one of the most quoted arguments against PHP! > Only if it results in an actual and measurable improvement. Changes > for > "purity" or "consistency" do NOT

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Proposal] var keyword deprecation/removal

2016-03-06 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:56daf480.7030...@fleshgrinder.com... On 3/5/2016 2:33 PM, Lester Caine wrote: On 05/03/16 11:26, Fleshgrinder wrote: PHP being a mess is still one of the most quoted arguments against PHP! But then again, we are talking about removal and real BC in 6 to 9 years and

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Proposal] var keyword deprecation/removal

2016-03-06 Thread Fleshgrinder
On 3/6/2016 7:07 AM, Stephen Coakley wrote: > That is correct; there are many, many old codebases of many different > languages out there. However, you need to consider in what way such > software is maintained. Let's start with Linux and Apache. Both of those > pieces of software are _not_ in

[PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC Discussion] Precise session management

2016-03-06 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Hi all, On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: >> >> RFC >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/precise_session_management >> >> PR >> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1734 > > Thank you for the comment and review, Bob! > I've updated the patch. Please take a look at

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Traits with interfaces

2016-03-06 Thread Rowan Collins
On 05/03/2016 23:15, Davey Shafik wrote: You are mid-reading, none of the classes in my examples extend the others, they are all just using the same trait in different ways. - Class a: use the trait with no aliases. Result: as expected - Class b: use the trait with a simple alias, no

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.1

2016-03-06 Thread Rowan Collins
On 05/03/2016 03:50, Stephen Coakley wrote: I'm not entirely sure about what you mean. On my system, create_function returns something like '\x00lambda_1'. Do you mean that users are guessing such a string in order to use it? Sounds like the smelliest of code smells. Maybe not constructing

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Generalize support of negative string offsets

2016-03-06 Thread Pascal MARTIN, AFUP
Le 19/02/2016 13:19, François Laupretre a écrit : Starting vote about : https://wiki.php.net/rfc/negative-string-offsets Voting period ends in 2 weeks : Monday, March 7th 00:00 UTC. Hi, We talked about this RFC at AFUP and are +1, by a huge margin. Basically: more coherence between