Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30501 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 91560 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Jul 2007 13:17:29 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 91545 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 13:17:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 13:17:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 212.112.227.169 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.112.227.169 ipx11223.ipxserver.de Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.112.227.169] ([212.112.227.169:60228] helo=ipx11223.ipxserver.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F7/C4-50692-7E04E864 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:17:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA97DF0140; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 15:17:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ipx11223.ipxserver.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flottensignalgeber [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23866-08; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 15:17:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [77.74.0.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADFDDF0106; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 15:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <468E40E0.70607@pooteeweet.org> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:17:20 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Priebsch Cc: RQuadling@GoogleMail.com, Antony Dovgal , Rasmus Lerdorf , Derick Rethans , Cristian Rodriguez , internals@lists.php.net References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7d5a202f0707060224oa64dfeaw2c7ee17a735648f9@mail.gmail.com> <468E1158.2030900@lerdorf.com> <468E13C6.1070109@pooteeweet.org> <468E2009.9000703@zend.com> <10845a340707060432h6516ea5eja0995dbc974baa0a@mail.gmail.com> <468E2A9C.8030704@zend.com> <10845a340707060454t24a854dfu93aad454dd1f37ed@mail.gmail.com> <468E2F78.9090002@pooteeweet.org> <10845a340707060509u70152abctf1801324be490ed1@mail.gmail.com> <468E400E.6060005@e-novative.de> In-Reply-To: <468E400E.6060005@e-novative.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by somedaemon at backendmedia.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) Stefan Priebsch wrote: > IMHO backporting a lot of features to PHP4 is a major reasons for the > slow PHP5 adoption. Basically, it seems that everybody who is not using > OOP feels that PHP4 is fine for them. what was back ported aside from the memory corruption fix, which I am sure even pushed a few people to update to PHP5? > There must be a reason to upgrade to a new PHP version (usually > features, maybe performance increase etc.). But there also must be no > reason not to upgrade. But you all know this, it has been said before. native unicode is a feature. also i would mandate that all new features must _first_ go into PHP6. regards, Lukas