Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:35935 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34153 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2008 21:33:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Mar 2008 21:33:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.198.191 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.198.191 rv-out-0910.google.com Received: from [209.85.198.191] ([209.85.198.191:59111] helo=rv-out-0910.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D5/C7-29055-3CE6CC74 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:33:57 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k15so226576rvb.23 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:33:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=nYRGvycXgp7OII9jR+zgb0Anjoug5ZcocbhHedWY/z4=; b=A6dTGsHt6ikzWSl785MvP8bTF2Ju/dvMLijGYCFw/5R6T8RapGHgC0k5bS3TknNKJXAZTPkXtF5BFB2D52XOQunY5H/Wx23dVI8UNpNl9ngzecWoQCoVZlpTqtJbhp3bUId9NRco/xUXs3c0DfxJFF8GbMc9TZrYd84ThEPsIjQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UljQt+gfcZfk5R8p6o5yw3EW+4VWTMQGNweOaazlSmQrd8rCgbi1rnhYazsqzp/dG46INHafldREt1oOZ1jvEE7KZZzpU6FS2xJ4OCP0FZxfS3VaTc9deb5tXh8QPxo9HGU4cwmJEpypEjVQcGc3jqPyNTjtDSee7tKnk7vWJJo= Received: by 10.141.88.3 with SMTP id q3mr444262rvl.3.1204580032527; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.116.12 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:33:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:33:52 +0100 To: "Stanislav Malyshev" Cc: "Marcus Boerger" , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <47CC6D38.4060206@zend.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1706278209.20080302232134@marcus-boerger.de> <47CB2E9D.6010102@zend.com> <1642796941.20080303002651@marcus-boerger.de> <47CB8107.1090802@zend.com> <1207450994.20080303113313@marcus-boerger.de> <47CC4A9D.1080705@zend.com> <47CC5616.8040506@zend.com> <47CC6D38.4060206@zend.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye") Hi Stan, On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > > intl (and related changes) is almost the only why one will upgrade to > > 5.3.x. There is no core (as in zend engine) for 95% of our users. Sorry I was not clear. I did not say that there is nothing done. That's why I said "almost" :) > From NEWS: > - Added and improved PHP syntax and semantics: > . Added NOWDOC. (Gwynne Raskind, Stas, Dmitry) > . Added "?:" operator. (Marcus) > . Added support for namespaces. (Dmitry, Stas, Gregory) > . Added support for Late Static Binding. (Dmitry, Etienne Kneuss) > . Added support for __callstatic() magic method. (Sara) > . Added support for dynamic access of static members using > $foo::myFunc(). > (Etienne Kneuss) > . Improved checks for callbacks. (Marcus) > And that's not counting extension stuff. I of course value a lot the > importance given to intl, but 5.3 IMHO is juicier than just intl :) Indeed and that's not yet finished :) But we have to be realistic, namespaces and icu/intl are the really appealing language features (and long awaited). -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org