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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

> 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6

1 as soon as we have it stabilized.

> 2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by 
> default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs

1

> 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch

1

> 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch

Only if no significant performance degradation or one could turn it 
on/off at will.

> 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is 
> already available)

1

> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes

-1 I think it's still too early. If we have E_DEPCRECATED however we 
might add some annoyances to them ;)

> 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for PDO 
> and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default)

Introduce - +1, use as default - not sure, does mysqlnd has any 
downsides? If not, +1 too.

> 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5

1

> 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available)

0

> 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED

0. Why do we *need* it again?

> 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch

1

> 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch

1

> 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli

0

> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by 
> default)

-1, we discussed why :) 0 if not enabled by default.

> 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch

1

> 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? "htaccess" 
> style ini file support

0. We need to check very thoroughly we won't have security trouble with 
it like we had with .htaccess. If it's ok then 1.

> 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6

1 with all other __static too.

> 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic 
> property creation

-1 for now, not sure it's that useful, we are "dynamic" language ;)

I also think the following items are not mentioned:

Dynamic class access ($class::method)
(binary) operator which is the same as (string)
remove --enable-fastcgi and family, always enable them
remove warning for var
Non-parsed heredocs (nowdocs)
goto
__construct in interfaces
Constant folding in compile-time


-- 
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com