Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Enumerations

2020-12-09 Thread Lester Caine
on just how some aspects of their use can be expanded to cover internationalization and the example in the RFC has no obvious way of supporting a different language? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Lester Caine
anyway so securing a private build I can maintain myself seems the right way forward. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [PHP-DEV] Draft RFC: foreach iteration of keys without values

2020-09-02 Thread Lester Caine
On 02/09/2020 15:31, Thomas Bley wrote: I'd also like to propose to use null: [null, null, $username] = getUserData(); foreach ($source as $key => null) {} Exactly what null is designed for ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Cont

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] \PHP namespace usage heuristics

2020-07-17 Thread Lester Caine
ng or \Ext|Array extension that is more 'object orientated' while leaving the legacy functions wrapped in \PHP ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Discussion] Change terminology to ExcludeList

2020-06-16 Thread Lester Caine
re is going to cause confusion and adding to that confusion with a different 'translation' just makes the situation worse? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digi

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
om/2020/06/15/github_replaces_master_with_main/ if people are not following the press coverage. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainb

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Attribute Amendments

2020-06-09 Thread Lester Caine
s Python but trying to change things piecemeal rather than just going all in and destroying BC and starting again with 'a more current language'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Mod

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Attribute Amendments

2020-06-08 Thread Lester Caine
On 08/06/2020 16:30, Benjamin Eberlei wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Lester Caine <mailto:les...@lsces.uk>> wrote: On 08/06/2020 09:44, Marco Pivetta wrote: > I was mostly conflicted around the "allow grouped attributes" bit, but > Jam

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Attribute Amendments

2020-06-08 Thread Lester Caine
umentation provided by docblocks is to be replaced there has to be a compelling reason to do so and while this latest drive for yet another documentation method seems to be now a fate acompli there WAS no reason to replace that perfectly acceptable documentation! -- Lester Cai

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Compact Object Property Assignment

2020-03-31 Thread Lester Caine
and then send it to the list ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Migration tooling and the cumulative cost of purely syntactical deprecations

2019-10-11 Thread Lester Caine
all of this will take when there is no indication just how long it WILL take, and then what work will be required in addition to simply removing the nannying messages from wordpress ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2)

2019-10-08 Thread Lester Caine
setups often without adequate care. Which is why ANY unnecessary changes that need to be made as a result are just painful often without ANY gain what so ever on either side? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [PHP-DEV] Changing fundamental language behaviors

2019-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
cut across the ways frameworks already handle that functionality ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://ra

Re: [PHP-DEV] Bringing Peace to the Galaxy

2019-08-09 Thread Lester Caine
? It just has the advantage that it can link deeper into the core engine than ones which simply sit on top? In exactly the same way C++ sits on top of C ? -- Lester Caine -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] The real world ...

2019-06-13 Thread Lester Caine
g as I want to chase the order I placed Monday ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk --

Re: [PHP-DEV] The real world ...

2019-06-13 Thread Lester Caine
be right :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime D

Re: [PHP-DEV] The real world ...

2019-06-13 Thread Lester Caine
machines worth of logs ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] The real world ...

2019-06-13 Thread Lester Caine
that sensitive information is not displayed in the stack. Most of the time it IS just the warnings one gets and clients can report them and see they are cleared ... so some sort of middle ground between off and on would be helpful? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https

[PHP-DEV] The real world ...

2019-06-13 Thread Lester Caine
Db-> should obviously be handling the problem anyway? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.u

Re: [PHP-DEV] open_basedir?

2019-05-11 Thread Lester Caine
to achieve that seems somewhat insane? https://uk.godaddy.com/help/can-i-use-open-basedir-on-my-server-running-parallels-plesk-panel-1619 is an example of one hosting providers use of it and something which would probably require every host to rework their support crib sheets :( -- Lester Caine

[PHP-DEV] email list problem

2019-05-02 Thread Lester Caine
than one copy of an post ... HOPEFULLY they have now lifted the ban and this will go. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-29 Thread Lester Caine
On 29/04/2019 09:01, Zeev Suraski wrote: It's absolutely fine to dislike short tags. It's absolutely fine to believe it shouldn't have been introduced. But the gap between that, and thinking it's fine to remove it - is very, very big. And how long after it's removed will

Re: [PHP-DEV] Revive Number Format Separator RFC

2019-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
or as floating point numbers ... leap seconds just get hidden in the processing. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [PHP-DEV] Revive Number Format Separator RFC

2019-04-26 Thread Lester Caine
the country code with a '+' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-25 Thread Lester Caine
not even know what a PHP file is :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
change that. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media -

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
and PHP7.2 complains about how SMARTY expands that in the template ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
keep throwing 'count' warnings which currently have been fixed by simply removing the 'count' and leaving the value blank. That is until someone who knows how to fix it provides a fix. It's BUILDING cached templates which can't simply be sanitised by scanning the code base! -- Lester Caine

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
of 'php' to the templates serves no purpose other than bowing to other peoples coding styles! There are other easier ways of shooting myself in the foot especially since -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
On 24/04/2019 17:04, Peter Bowyer wrote: Surely the time for vocal opposition was _before_ voting closed? And actually having a vote would help ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
that is 'the proper way to do it' ... this is long established coding style issue not simply automatic edits to code that IS working perfectly already. It does not 'fixing' simply because some people don't like it ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-04-24 Thread Lester Caine
at removing descriptive text elsewhere. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Lester Caine
years ... it's still running the same sites perfectly ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Lester Caine
to 'continually update' the driver, only the wrappers around the basic driver. Which do not impact the driver extension itself? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Nullable Casting

2019-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
or right justified number but the logic now requires an 'int' to keep it quiet is pushing towards needing these separate versions of essentially the same variable :( Making the associative array view of the data difficult to manage ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-05 Thread Lester Caine
failed returns rather than simply throwing the error in the hope that something else will deal with it? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Permit trailing whitespace in numeric strings

2019-04-04 Thread Lester Caine
al where numeric data is right justified in a CHAR field is equally valid. Handling these has always required care and it would be preferable that both returned the same result without having to trim and perhaps creating problems when the padded version needs to be returned

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-29 Thread Lester Caine
. It is the firebird client which is actually holding the connection on which ibase_wait_event is listening. Using it depends very much on how PHP handles asynchronous events while I simply want to know that the read or write I've just done was successful or not ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-29 Thread Lester Caine
me problem as finding resources to update the interbase extension. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-29 Thread Lester Caine
firebird user groups don't engage directly with the 'English' groups. So it looks like I'm going to be stuck on PHP7.3 from now on ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-26 Thread Lester Caine
-driver-development/, but then many Firebird user groups do not have English as a first language and just get on with things locally. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-24 Thread Lester Caine
upgrade cycles, but not always easy where distros 'keep up to date' automatically :( And even more difficult when they stick with an older version when you need the updated one :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-24 Thread Lester Caine
message is much better than a white screen any day. Although I still get white screens as well :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-24 Thread Lester Caine
s it's all that is needed? It's just not politically correct today? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Worksh

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
newcomers call it a bug it's an original design feature. I'll add BOOLEAN to https://phpsurgery.org/tests/ibtest.php tomorrow, but there are bugs in your link that don't show in the link I have been using :( But some of them are not bugs ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
n the past, where adding extra extensions does not always work reliably ... one has to provide a wrapped package with all the edge cases addressed. But all my use in production is using ADOdb to wrap the database SQL problems ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Conta

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
the extension doing it's job for the vast majority of users and even the suggestion that it is unusable due to Bug 72175 does not stand up to scrutiny and can now be fixed in 7.3 and 7.2 anyway ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
at the problem - again - so I AM in something of a bad mood. Turned out to be part of the upgrade to get these sites working on PHP7.2/FB3 was missed so suggestions that something I've been using for 20 years does not work does not go down well! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
now I need another plan of attack :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
complaining about it is as with many other things in PHP simply to explain they are doing it wrong anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com

Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
at I am not the only person using PHP with Firebird and reliant on it continuing to be available! Now to get back to working out why Nikita's patch does not work in 7.2.16 ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
manages extra transactions on the same link. Working of a singleton link just works and so in that case the bug is irrelevant rather than a show stopper. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https

[PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...

2019-03-23 Thread Lester Caine
ion, being completely incompatible with current builds of Interbase. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Worksh

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-22 Thread Lester Caine
ll waiting on mercurial syncing with git but hopefully in the morning I'll be able to cross check changes in the files over time. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySol

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-03-22 Thread Lester Caine
in the last year! So all we are asking for is HELP with the code changes that result from changes to the PHP API to keep this available. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve

Re: [PHP-DEV] [Proposal] Struct Data Types

2019-03-15 Thread Lester Caine
something that will be variable. But isn't all this just mainly another class object. As has been suggested for an improved array object but never developed further? Create an extension to support it first, although the validation element is still needed for any variable across the board ... -- Lester Cain

Re: [PHP-DEV] print with newline

2019-03-03 Thread Lester Caine
lank lines in the address data which have to be stripped before you can use it following a paste ... adding hard page ends needs to be properly thought about! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Servic

Re: [PHP-DEV] phpenmod/phpdismod

2019-02-05 Thread Lester Caine
is enabled... It's nice to be able to ignore MySQL and Postgres when one is not using them in production, so the ability simply to load those extensions one actually uses is a nice to have ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [PHP-DEV] phpenmod/phpdismod

2019-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
! The question of managing selection of what extensions ARE loaded is a minefield in it's own right ... and just where they are loaded by default. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] JIT

2019-02-03 Thread Lester Caine
tested that but perhaps it is time to update my own benchmarks. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable PEAR by default

2019-02-02 Thread Lester Caine
to a stable windows base is just more blockers to bringing the over 70% of sites that are still on PHP5 forward to PHP7. Especially if other moves make Windows a second class citizen? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable PEAR by default

2019-02-02 Thread Lester Caine
is yet another drain on limited resources. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: RFC Workflow & Voting (2019 update)

2019-02-01 Thread Lester Caine
ned in new projects but is at adds with much legacy code? Bringing in blocks of 'voters' who have a different development style before deciding if that style is acceptable just seems wrong? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC][VOTE] mb_str_split

2019-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
an understanding of just how the chunks are defined. mb characters or bytes for example? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers

Re: [PHP-DEV] Inconsistent float to string vs. string to floatcasting

2019-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
validation client specific removes the need to mess up the server by trying to run multiple locales with the possible conflicts between that, just as trying to manage multiple times is complicated if the server is running yet another locale? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Typed properties v2

2018-09-23 Thread Lester Caine
is actually usable! PLEASE can we get back to making variables manage their own VALIDITY rather than just some arbitrary concept of type! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Typed properties v2

2018-09-21 Thread Lester Caine
to be 'initialized' if at all for this instance of the object. The constructor simply creates those elements that need to exit and does nothing with the holders for elements that have yet to be populated ... they stay null. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Typed properties v2

2018-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
to be nailing down every variable that is being passed and it is certainly not 'bad coding' to be working with uninitialized data - it's handling just what needs to be initialized that is the job of the code. And that is unlikely to be done in the constructor! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [PHP-DEV] Array max size

2018-08-01 Thread Lester Caine
an unlimited array size, but it should not prevent it from being able to be handled. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Optional typehint check for parameters

2018-07-16 Thread Lester Caine
for PHP7.3 gives me any reason to need to worry about using it at all ... typehints are certainly an extra negative to changing ... 7.0.x is stable on my LTS platform, so I'll stay on that ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Typed Properties

2018-07-08 Thread Lester Caine
' and the like is NOT providing that! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 2^3

2018-06-26 Thread Lester Caine
in several languages to make a set of tools work. And I'm waiting for the demand for Oracle's java subscription to allow me to continue to use Eclipse as the main IDE ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [PHP-DEV] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions - interbase

2018-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
uch easier to implement if you understand why it is now necessary? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://

Re: [PHP-DEV] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions - interbase

2018-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
grade tools. I'm not sure just what accounts I have on PHP these days. I used to have logins but I forget nowadays what for. I would just like to get back to producing content rather than firefighting changes every day ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

[PHP-DEV] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions - interbase

2018-06-19 Thread Lester Caine
that I use in the ADOdb Firebird driver. THAT is something I do spend time keeping tidy, and fixes some of the niggles raw access encounters, but I will have a look at the 2017 bugs that I'd not been aware of ... the other bugs are somewhat exotic but not security matters. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions

2018-06-19 Thread Lester Caine
. But the problem supporting ANY driver is the exotic nature of PHP is just as difficult as the tools it needs to interface with to make a fully functional stack ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

[PHP-DEV] undocumented session_name() change

2018-05-24 Thread Lester Caine
notification of the change, so when did it happen and why. More to the point, why has the documentation not been amended to match the new functionality? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecate the backtick operator

2018-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
particular problem is simply use unicode IN core and ditch mbstring. That is not going to happen before I pass on, but hopefully some later version of PHP will not have to worry at all about unicode ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?pa

[PHP-DEV] Tidying out of context errors

2018-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
t majority of users. backtick probably comes into the style class and with people Python for on machine script handling nowadays then removing access to the machine for PHP scripts just seems another push that way? Just what target area IS PHP supporting? -- Lester Cai

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Strong Typing Syntax

2018-01-05 Thread Lester Caine
is isolated from other paths while a core standard method of validation would simplify things in a way 'strong typing' does not! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk Enquiry

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2018-01-02 Thread Lester Caine
is restrained to an 'int' thing is of little practical use to many users ... they still need the validation library whether they understand 'strict typing' or not. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2018-01-01 Thread Lester Caine
en we PAY to renew! Another job to waste time on this week :( So NO I DON'T NEED STRICT TYING ... THE DATABASE INTERFACE TAKES CARE OF LIMITS AND VALUES THAT int DOES TOTALLY NOTHING FOR !!!! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2017-12-31 Thread Lester Caine
On 31/12/17 10:24, Tony Marston wrote: > wrote in message news:28ba9e6a-a3f2-2547-d294-f3a1710d5...@rhsoft.net... >> >> >> >> Am 30.12.2017 um 11:37 schrieb Lester Caine: >>> On 30/12/17 09:16, Tony Marston wrote: >>>>>> You are missing

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2017-12-30 Thread Lester Caine
f a move that way and get on with a version of PHP that is only typed. Then for one can simply avoid it ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Implement missing SQLite feature "openBlob" in PDO

2017-10-12 Thread Lester Caine
f the 'extras' added to individual drivers and it is about time the ground rules were clearly defined and enforced. That nobody has stepped up to finish the parts of PDO that were put on the back burner when it was prematurely pushed into the core build is perhaps a further indication that it w

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Implement SQLite "openBlob" feature in PDO

2017-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
nd I have to do that for other functions in other databases currently anyway. So one does not have to overload PDO with more checks as to if your code will work on the different drivers. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.C

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Implement SQLite "openBlob" feature in PDO

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/09/17 10:17, Matteo Beccati wrote: > On 27/09/2017 11:00, Lester Caine wrote: >> The bigger question is - Should database specific extensions to PDO be >> allowed at all? The WHOLE base of PDO was that it would allow easy data >> management between DIFFERENT d

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Implement SQLite "openBlob" feature in PDO

2017-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
is should be implemented in a way that mirrors blobs generically otherwise the generic database driver should be used since a switch to another PDO driver will fail. This should apply to any targeted extension to PDO, so anything that breaks the generic base data needs tidy

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-24 Thread Lester Caine
ultibyte constant names with the current limited sub-set of case conversion is just not sensible, but in the absence of a clean unicode case folding/conversion which is the sensible next step? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electron

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
d ascii case-insensitivity is allowed? Do we NEED case-insensitivity if that is one thing preventing a switch to use of unicode names in the code? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk

Re: [PHP-DEV] Progress or just 'a mess'?

2017-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
ower cased at times and this DOES cause a problem if the metadata defines upper case and I suspect that is something that will never be changed now, but the actual rules applied would be nice to know? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L

Re: [PHP-DEV] Progress or just 'a mess'?

2017-09-17 Thread Lester Caine
On 17/09/17 11:53, Rowan Collins wrote: > On 17 September 2017 09:54:54 BST, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >> Just what character set is PHP7 >> designed >> to work with. > > Focusing on the answerable part of this, PHP actually allows a v

[PHP-DEV] Progress or just 'a mess'?

2017-09-17 Thread Lester Caine
and identify just what 'case-insensitive' means and where it does apply? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
it up. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
file name when it was entered lower case. Since all our web servers are 'non-windows', hitting the idiosyncrasies of these inappropriate case conversions just adds to the fun. That may not the happening these days, but cause major problems at one time! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ---

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/09/17 14:10, Michael Morris wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >> UTF8 introduces a level of complexity and can be used used in many >> places in PHP, but it does seem that there is no drive these days to >&

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
s seem that there is no drive these days to make the core a clean UTF8 environment. This should perhaps be addressed again for PHP8? But the additional problems that case-insensitive then introduces may mean that all case-insensitivity has to be removed at that point? -- Lester Caine -

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
g an RTTY as the keyboard and printer. No one had invented the shift key and the 5 bit character set was easy to work with. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.c

Re: [PHP-DEV] A validator module for PHP7

2017-09-07 Thread Lester Caine
variable by variable once one has established that there IS a valid set of variables to work with. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digita

Re: [PHP-DEV] Providing built-in functionality written in PHP (was RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] UUID)

2017-09-06 Thread Lester Caine
eate additional UUID like variables and validate that the supplied data to populate hem is correct. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model En

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