Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:22278 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60236 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Mar 2006 11:11:29 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60221 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2006 11:11:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Mar 2006 11:11:29 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.74.107.235 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([80.74.107.235:37771] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id F5/24-27106-06D00144 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:11:29 -0500 Received: (qmail 6064 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2006 11:11:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO zeev-notebook.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Mar 2006 11:11:24 -0000 Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060309131059.066fcff0@zend.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:11:29 +0200 To: Sebastian Bergmann Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060309124054.06c31238@zend.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski) Good response, but it wasn't even 30 minutes :) Zeev At 13:07 09/03/2006, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >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 > >-- >PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php