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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:38:10 -0800
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer
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To: "Hannes Magnusson" <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com>,
	"Stas Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>
Cc: "Antony Dovgal" <tony@daylessday.org>,
	"Marcus Boerger" <helly@php.net>,
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:hannes.magnusson@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:18 AM
> To: Stas Malyshev
> Cc: Antony Dovgal; Marcus Boerger; Andi Gutmans;
> internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an
> re2c [1] based lexer
>=20
> Improving on that statement: The coolest feature ever is worth
> absolutely nothing unless it is documented.
>=20
> Don't care if its a new language construct, new class, function or
> method, optional parameter, new syntax in php.ini, errorlevel, dropped
> warnings or an awesome --enable-zend-multibyte configure switch. If it
> isn't documented its totally useless for anyone not reading php-cvs,
> zend-engine-cvs and this list daily.
>=20
> I'll hunt you all down and make you eat 1kg of vegetables each day
> after the 5.3 release untill proper documentation and upgrade guides
> have been written.
> Mark my words my friends, mark my words! ;)
>=20

Why do you say it's not documented?
http://www.aconus.com/~oyaji/www/apache_linux_php.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2o8pq2

OK just kidding and I agree it would be nice to have it better
documented in the mainstream docs. As it applies mostly to the Asian
users though (Chinese/Japanese) who usually seek localized docs it's
probably not as good as it should be in php.net.

Andi