Re: [PHP-DEV] language specification project

2001-05-21 Thread Stig Sæther Bakken
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi, About the language specification project: The goal I see for this project is coming out with a document that is useful for users. Something that they could hold in their hands, and from reading it, they'd know whether something is supposed to work or not. Now,

Re: [PHP-DEV] language specification project

2001-05-21 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 15:58 21/5/2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: I think the important thing is just to have the language specified and thoroughly documented, with BNF and all. Let quirks be quriks for now, a specification process should not fix them, but put them all on the radar for future fixing. There's

Re: [PHP-DEV] language specification project

2001-05-21 Thread jeroen
huge snip Stig wrote: I think the important thing is just to have the language specified and thoroughly documented, with BNF and all. Let quirks be quriks for now, a specification process should not fix them, but put them all on the radar for future fixing. There's always someone who

[PHP-DEV] language specification project

2001-05-20 Thread jeroen
Hi, About the language specification project: The goal I see for this project is coming out with a document that is useful for users. Something that they could hold in their hands, and from reading it, they'd know whether something is supposed to work or not. Now, I'm sure that it's possible

[PHP-DEV] language specification project

2001-05-20 Thread jeroen
Hi, About the language specification project: The goal I see for this project is coming out with a document that is useful for users. Something that they could hold in their hands, and from reading it, they'd know whether something is supposed to work or not. Now, I'm sure that it's possible

Re: [PHP-DEV] language specification project

2001-05-20 Thread derick
On Sun, 20 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This project seems rather dead to me. Though, I think it should be continued. Some work was alread been done. Yeah, it should be very nice to have a spec, so that others can implement an alternative for the Zend engine (/me hides) I would like

Re: [PHP-DEV] language specification project

2001-05-20 Thread jeroen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sun, 20 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This project seems rather dead to me. Though, I think it should be continued. Some work was alread been done. Yeah, it should be very nice to have a spec, so that