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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:10:55 +0100
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Subject: Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta
From: r.korving@xit.nl ("Ron Korving")

A little offtopic, but I'm still curious.. is multiple inheritence something
we might see appearing in 5.2 ?

Ron

"Marcus Boerger" <helly@php.net> wrote in message
news:59089102.20050217201853@marcus-boerger.de...
> 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.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Marcus