Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:22277 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58761 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Mar 2006 11:08:30 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58746 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2006 11:08:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Mar 2006 11:08:30 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.91.229.2 main.gmane.org Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([80.91.229.2:40015] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 4C/E3-27106-BAC00144 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:08:27 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FHJ06-0006LC-5N for internals@lists.php.net; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:08:10 +0100 Received: from p50884995.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.136.73.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:08:10 +0100 Received: from sb by p50884995.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:08:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:07:47 +0100 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060309124054.06c31238@zend.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50884995.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060309124054.06c31238@zend.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion From: sb@sebastian-bergmann.de (Sebastian Bergmann) Zeev Suraski schrieb: > we're still heatedly debating on adding new syntactical, core level > features. Apart from namespaces, I can't think of any other "syntactical core level feature" missing that could not be implemented as an extension. Sara and Marcus have already shown (with the Operator and the SPL_Types extensions, respectively) that new language features (operator overloading and autoboxing, for example) can be added to PHP without having to touch PHP itself. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69