Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:36967 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 27285 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2008 19:30:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Apr 2008 19:30:09 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.8.134.189 unknown Received: from [64.8.134.189] ([64.8.134.189:15034] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E1/A0-23334-04CBFF74 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:30:09 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:30:06 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 64.8.134.189 Subject: PHP 5.3 == PHP 6? From: rpanning@gmail.com (Ryan Panning) I have been wondering the answer to this question for a while now. A LOT of stuff has been backported from PHP 6 to PHP 5.3. So much in fact, why don't you just call PHP 5.3 version 6? What major new features are left for PHP 6? The big one I can think of is unicode support and dropping some depreciated stuff. Yes, I have looked at the wiki todo list for 6. I'm not trying to start anything here, just want to know why not just call it PHP 6?