Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:13620 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 94585 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Oct 2004 00:09:09 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 94419 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2004 00:09:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blobule.suds) (66.11.170.154) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2004 00:09:08 -0000 Received: by blobule.suds (Postfix, from userid 501) id 8B25A131BC3; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:10:43 -0400 (EDT) To: Derick Rethans Cc: Andi Gutmans , PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20041029193421.9557.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <418294D9.4070700@prohost.org> <20041029193421.9557.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20041029162045.0439b9c0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: InterJinn Message-ID: <1099095043.14993.22.camel@blobule.suds> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5-4mdk Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:10:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Negative string offset support From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:29, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > Yeah, I also thought the word "need" is a bit strong :) It's more like > > "syntactic sugar which is nice-to-have" > > As I just told Ilia on IRC, I think we should not add this (now) for a > couple of reasons: > > - Adding new language constructs in mini releases is IMO not the way to > go as it will make it possible impossible to run script that use this > new construct not even parse on PHP 5.0.x servers. Adding normal new > functions does not have this problem of course, as those scripts are > still parsable. BTW, I agree with the above argument... not that my agreeing or disagreeing counts for much :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'