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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:18:53 +0100
Reply-To: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
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Subject: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello internals,

  before we rush into another version, how about clearing some open issues
that were explicitly relayed from 5.0 to 5.1.

1) __toString()

  There was a problem with the Zend engine 2.0 that forced us to drop this
  feature. Now that we have 2.1 we should check again and readd the feature.
  Since PHP is designed to generate string output i think that should be
  made as easy as possible. And after learning echo and '.' it is hard to
  explain that 'echo $foo . $bar' could result in something different than
  'echo $foo, $bar'. Besides if it turned out that there is still a
  reentrance problem then we'd need to remove __call, __get, __set,
  iterators.....

2) type hinting and NULL

  We decided to find a way to handle NULL. Iirc then we settled down on
  allowing 'foo(BLA $obj = NULL) which could be easily added.

3) type hinting and arrays

  We decided that we want typehinting for arrays since that is a very
  special kind. Since my array-typehinting patch was considered 'not so
  nice' i hope somebody else has a better idea.

4) php 5.1 is aiming to increase performance and security => ifsetor

  It is nice and easy and fast...only it's name. Well guys come on that's
  the stupiest reason to reject. The name is selfspeaking, you're all only
  not so used to its name as you are with foreach for now.

5) did we came to a conclusion on Rasmus' input filtering yet

  Since we said we aim to increase security with 5.1 we should incorporate
  that idea/technique in some way.

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Best regards,
 Marcus