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Subject: Re: Backporting to 5_3
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:04 -0300, Felipe Pena wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like know which itens below needs be backported to 5_3:
> 
> - Added runtime JIT auto-globals fetching and caching. (Dmitry, Sara)

Not sure if this has benefits without the encoding stuff which is
planned for PHP 6.

> - Added "jump label" operator (limited "goto"). (Dmitry, Sara)

No objection, while it adds yet another keyword.

> - Removed support for "continue" and "break" operators with non-constant
>   operands. (Dmitry)

-1, also just two use cases were found I don't like to break that with
5.3.

> - Removed undocumented and incomplete support for strings in list()
> operator. (Dmitry)

What exactly does that change?

> - Changed "instanceof" and "catch" operators, is_a() and
> is_subclass_of() functions to not call __autoload(). (Dmitry)

+1, makes sense.


> Let me know, and then i could post the patch for aprovation.

Please do that.

Thanks,
johannes