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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] to be discussed items
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am about to move all "to be discussed items" [1] to the future PHP 
> release section (so after 5.3):
> 
> 1) userspace streams filter that acts as a default filter through which 
> require/include read their files (Sebastian, Sara)
> 2) XMLWriter: Add writeNode([xmlreader obj]), allow to create a 
> push/pull parser
> 3) add a function that returns tsrm_thread_id() - already covered by 
> zend_thread_id() but only in debug ZTS mode (Wez)

Regarding this, PHP is not pthreads conformant. The thread_id has own 
type and it is implementation specific. There is pthread_equal() to make 
comparison, although it is not used in the PHP code and the thread id is 
considered to be an int, last time I checked.

> 4) DOM recover error reporting mode
> 5) PDO: allow the DSN to be passed as array, proposal phase. An initial 
> proposal was done here (pierre, lukas)
> 6) namespaces for internal classes
> 7) deprecate/remove ticks
> 8) Algorithm Optimizations - string search
> 
> For 6) it does not seem like we know a good solution at this stage. For 
> 8) we might decide to selectively incorporate patches. Though it would 
> be the authors job to present us two RMs with easy to evaluate candidate 
> patches to consider.
> 
> regards,
> Lukas Kahwe Smith
> mls@pooteeweet.org
> 
> [1] http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53#to_be_discussed
> 

Best,
Andrey