Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30644 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 76636 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Jul 2007 07:45:08 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 76620 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2007 07:45:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2007 07:45:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ceo@l-i-e.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ceo@l-i-e.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain l-i-e.com from 67.139.134.202 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from [67.139.134.202] ([67.139.134.202:3376] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FF/B0-05991-487E1964 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:45:08 -0400 Received: (qmail 5931 invoked by uid 98); 9 Jul 2007 07:45:13 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/3609. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.072756 secs); 09 Jul 2007 07:45:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2007 07:45:12 -0000 Received: from 24.1.37.132 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 02:45:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <2065.24.1.37.132.1183967112.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <468E7256.10905@zend.com> References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4678252F.2050803@sci.fi> <46783212.4020900@lerdorf.com> <34654.216.230.84.67.1183064088.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <54557.78.61.224.253.1183098089.squirrel@avilys.eik.lt> <4684BB91.4070507@zend.com> <2169.24.1.37.132.1183693664.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <1183699755.14343.5.camel@johannes.nop> <7d5a202f0707060224oa64dfeaw2c7ee17a735648f9@mail.gmail.com> <468E1158.2030900@lerdorf.com> <468E13C6.1070109@pooteeweet.org> <468E2009.9000703@zend.com> <468E7180.3020709@zend.com> <468E7256.10905@zend.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 02:45:12 -0500 (CDT) To: "Antony Dovgal" Cc: "Stanislav Malyshev" , internals@lists.php.net Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Fri, July 6, 2007 11:48 am, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 06.07.2007 20:44, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >>> You don't by a Porsche if you need a taxi, why would you install >>> PHP6 if >>> you don't need Unicode? >> >> Namespaces ;) > > This reason is only valid if we don't backport such things from PHP6 > to PHP5 > (5.3, 5.5 or whatever it would be), which I think we should do. Then PHP 6 is going to be a very weird beast... It adds only the Unicode feature that a tiny niche market needs, because everything else will be back-ported to PHP 5. So the only adopters of PHP 6 will be: Users who need Unicode Users who just cannot wait for that new feature to get back-ported Masochists :-) For how long will this back-port to PHP 5 policy be in effect? The whole lifetime of PHP 6? Until PHP 7 is "stable"? Until the Unicode advocates get tired of back-porting? :-v Will users then jump from PHP 5 to 7? -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?