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Subject: Re: A Hacker's Guide - Obsolete
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 23.01.2020 at 13:07, Daniel Mart=C3=ADn Spiridione wrote:

> Hi interns. The official PHP.net documentation of the "PHP at the Core: =
A
> Hacker's Guide" section (https://www.php.net/manual/en/internals2.php) i=
s
> obsolete.
>
> In that sense Python has good documentation to be extended in C / C ++. =
I
> think this is also one of the reasons why there are libraries like NumPy
> and others that have popularized Python for data science.
>
> I personally know that the project http://www.phpinternalsbook.com exist=
s.
> While this book is not yet fully updated to PHP 7, the information it
> provides is wonderful!
>
> I think the "A Hacker's Guide" documentation should clarify that it is
> outdated and incomplete and at least reference the project
> http://www.phpinternalsbook.com
>
> What do you think?

I have suggested to remove this section from the manual and to replace
it with a page linking to external documentation long ago, but see
<https://news-web.php.net/php.doc/969386915>.

Thanks,
Christoph