Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP direction and governance [was: Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ]

2019-08-13 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I disagree that (as I take away from your last sentence) the current > approach is better because it means people feel they have been properly > heard. I can think of recent messages on the list from people saying > that they don't feel heard. I'm not saying we have perfect record in getti

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP direction and governance [was: Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ]

2019-08-13 Thread Chase Peeler
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 4:31 PM Peter Bowyer wrote: > Hi Stas, > > Thanks for replying! > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 04:26, Stanislav Malyshev > wrote: > > > The risk here however is for the document to be seen as a means to > > "argue less" by way of excluding certain points of view from discussi

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP direction and governance [was: Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ]

2019-08-13 Thread Peter Bowyer
Hi Stas, Thanks for replying! On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 04:26, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > The risk here however is for the document to be seen as a means to > "argue less" by way of excluding certain points of view from discussion. > That would not be a good thing. This is the main concern for co

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-12 Thread Zeev Suraski
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:56 PM Arnold Daniels wrote: > I've added a list of concerns to the FAQ. These are both taken from the > discussion as well as concerns I have myself. > Along the lines of the 'counterpoint' to short tags, I moved the concerns into a separate page here: http://wiki.php.

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-12 Thread Thomas Hruska
On 8/12/2019 2:06 AM, Benjamin Eberlei wrote: What would be the plan to boost or change the reputation? How are you going to find P++ in Google? How are users searching for things with PHP and P++? What's the documentation going to look like for two languages that share so much? Specifically from

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-12 Thread Arnold Daniels
I've added a list of concerns to the FAQ. These are both taken from the discussion as well as concerns I have myself. https://wiki.php.net/pplusplus/faq#what_are_the_general_concerns Arnold [Arnold Daniels - Chat @ Spike](https://www.spikenow.com/?ref=spike-organic-signature&_ts=43s7s)

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-12 Thread Andrey Hristov
On 12.08.19 г. 12:06 ч., Benjamin Eberlei wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Andi Gutmans wrote: I must admit that the first time I read Zeev’s email I got anxious... but it is frustrating that PHP has a WAY better runtime than Python and most other dynamic languages yet is falling out of

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-12 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
language with the best runtime. But "starting over" with 0 brand name and perception is much harder problem than changing the existing brand, and its not at all technical challenge. greetings Benjamin > > Andi > > Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-12 Thread Peter Bowyer
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 05:32, Andi Gutmans wrote: > I must admit that the first time I read Zeev’s email I got anxious... but > it is frustrating that PHP has a WAY better runtime than Python and most > other dynamic languages yet is falling out of fashion. In the case of Python, it seems to be

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-11 Thread Midori Koçak
; > From: Zeev Suraski > Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 12:54 PM > To: Internals > Subject: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ > > During the discussion of the P++ proposal ( > https://externals.io/message/106453), it became painfully clear that this > id

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-10 Thread Andi Gutmans
think there’s value of a different brand just because of the BS perception issues... Andi Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> From: Zeev Suraski Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 12:54 PM To: Internals Subject: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ During the discussion of

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP direction and governance [was: Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ]

2019-08-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I started for the same reason: to help the community pull together and > argue less, by having a codified set of values. The risk here however is for the document to be seen as a means to "argue less" by way of excluding certain points of view from discussion. That would not be a good thing

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Finally, Zeev, you mention the "PHP philosophy" of being a dynamic > language. While that may well be your philosophy, and you have every > right to have it, that has not been the "PHP philosophy" for years, > as seen by all of the type "stuff" that's been successfully added to > the langua

[PHP-DEV] PHP direction and governance [was: Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ]

2019-08-10 Thread Peter Bowyer
[List etiquette question: is it good form here to change the subject line when starting a tangential discussion?] On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 00:08, Larry Garfield wrote: > PHP doesn't have a coherent philosophy. It is proudly directionless, > steered by whoever happens to be writing code this week.

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Chase Peeler
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 7:08 PM Larry Garfield wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > During the discussion of the P++ proposal ( > > https://externals.io/message/106453), it became painfully clear that > this > > idea did little, so far, to bring peace to the galaxy. >

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Larry Garfield
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: > During the discussion of the P++ proposal ( > https://externals.io/message/106453), it became painfully clear that this > idea did little, so far, to bring peace to the galaxy. > > However, based on a lot of the feedback, both on internals@ an

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Zeev Suraski
On 10 Aug 2019, at 1:51, Sara Golemon mailto:poll...@php.net>> wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:58 PM Zeev Suraski mailto:z...@php.net>> wrote: As Bob pointed out I'm rusty, but I do think that we can solve the short tags issue in this way. At the lexer level, if we see the tag, we set short

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Sara Golemon
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:58 PM Zeev Suraski wrote: > As Bob pointed out I'm rusty, but I do think that we can solve the short > tags issue in this way. At the lexer level, if we see the tag, we > set short tags to off for the scope of the file before moving forward. But > more importantly, thi

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Sara Golemon
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:30 PM Mark Randall wrote: > On 09/08/2019 22:02, Sara Golemon wrote: > > 2. Strict(er) typing - I'm not sure, on the surface, what future > expansions > > we'd plan for in this area which couldn't fit into standard PHP in a non > > BC-breaking way. > > Union types and gen

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Zeev Suraski
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:03 AM Sara Golemon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:54 PM Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > It's available here: https://wiki.php.net/pplusplus/faq > > > > > It's possible I missed something while on holiday. There are certainly a > lot of messages to page through. I dig th

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Midori Koçak
I do completely agree with this and would like to be part of it. I am really frustrated to see old developers shrug every time I talk about php. I am enthusiastic about our language, the language I started coding with and the language that evolved in years while I was learning it. 2 years ago, whi

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Mark Randall
On 09/08/2019 22:02, Sara Golemon wrote: 2. Strict(er) typing - I'm not sure, on the surface, what future expansions we'd plan for in this area which couldn't fit into standard PHP in a non BC-breaking way. Union types and general reflection do spring to mind on this. I assume any APIs using t

Re: [PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Sara Golemon
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:54 PM Zeev Suraski wrote: > It's available here: https://wiki.php.net/pplusplus/faq > > It's possible I missed something while on holiday. There are certainly a lot of messages to page through. I dig the idea of resolving this tug-of-war between progress and BC, but I'm

[PHP-DEV] P++: FAQ

2019-08-09 Thread Zeev Suraski
During the discussion of the P++ proposal ( https://externals.io/message/106453), it became painfully clear that this idea did little, so far, to bring peace to the galaxy. However, based on a lot of the feedback, both on internals@ and elsewhere - it seems that a lot of people simply didn't reall