Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31595 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61139 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Aug 2007 19:46:09 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61123 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2007 19:46:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 2007 19:46:08 -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 85.10.196.195 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.10.196.195 serveforce1.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [85.10.196.195] ([85.10.196.195:47540] helo=serveforce1.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BE/80-57311-DF753C64 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:46:07 -0400 Received: from soitgoes.local (77-57-25-116.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.57.25.116]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by serveforce1.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AB3122422C; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:49:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46C357DF.9030408@pooteeweet.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:45:35 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hannes Magnusson CC: PHP Developers Mailing List References: <46C30190.2060106@pooteeweet.org> <7f3ed2c30708150724r21726e4fs212181e12ef70849@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7f3ed2c30708150724r21726e4fs212181e12ef70849@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.113, required 6, AWL 0.01, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10) X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-From: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] reserved word alert From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) Hannes Magnusson wrote: > On 8/15/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Someone in the Doctrine channel just brought up the issue of having to >> look forward to ensure mid term compatibility when choosing names for >> identifiers. I guess with namespaces and other things will add new >> reserved words. I think we should have a prominent place on php.net with >> early warning for reserved words that will be in future php releases. > > Meaning somewhere like http://php.net/reserved ? :) I mean we should frequently mention it. Hmm maybe what we need is a forward compatibility newsletter instead. Just something that summarizes the last 4 weeks worth of BC breaks :) Guess this can/should then however be semi independent of php.net. I will ponder if I have the motivation to do this. People helping would be an encouragement :) regards, Lukas