Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26596 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39960 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Nov 2006 06:40:53 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39945 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2006 06:40:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Nov 2006 06:40:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=kingwez@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=kingwez@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=good Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 64.233.182.190 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: good X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: kingwez@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.182.190 nf-out-0910.google.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [64.233.182.190] ([64.233.182.190:36439] helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 65/01-30868-376BA554 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:40:52 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l35so613527nfa for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:40:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IpfpWz9SHZrlmD5wYNNaGL35WSulCQ+rEEn3fq/hV0Nd8RDzdZmpWywNV1byyASGpG0ZH4DJOeSpTJ8sVNHOdGV3ciOre9zbrMBoB/iXzbfwpkXHqHjBnvCBSwqrbFLI+2huZdHz4yzETVAkF4/sQakwjQZFnTxEZlBqhGxdfOM= Received: by 10.82.139.17 with SMTP id m17mr194189bud.1163572848086; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:40:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.167.13 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:40:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4e89b4260611142240p4572cc50yd97542434ca4d7c7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:40:47 -0500 To: "Sara Golemon" Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <28.46.24214.5603A554@pb1.pair.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <016901c707e3$08aaa440$0201a8c0@pc1> <28.46.24214.5603A554@pb1.pair.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Binary strings from 6 in 5.2? From: kingwez@gmail.com ("Wez Furlong") I am +1 on this idea also. --Wez. On 11/14/06, Sara Golemon wrote: > > Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > > -1. Let's not transform 5.2 into a placeholder for PHP6. > > > > > > On 14-Nov-06, at 6:50 AM, Matt Wilmas wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> Matt > >> <5_2_binary.txt> > >> --PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > I disagree. We're not making 5.2 a placeholder, we're making it a > transitional version. A means of softening the impact of migrating > applications to take advantage of PHP6 which introduces a lot of > interversion compatability issues. > > How many applications out there aren't taking advantage of things like > property visibility in PHP5 because they want to remain compatable with > the myriad PHP4 installations? How much are compromises like that > slowing PHP5 adoption? > > With something like binary strings it's even more important since they > drastically change how the data is treated in PHP6 and can potentially > cause chunks to be transformed in unexpected ways. > > +1 on backporting these types of syntax placeholders. > > -Sara > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >