Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47238 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97344 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2010 18:50:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Mar 2010 18:50:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 78.32.209.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.32.209.33 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Linux 2.6 Received: from [78.32.209.33] ([78.32.209.33:63317] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 78/ED-15916-97EDB9B4 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:50:37 -0500 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NqWPm-00013y-HY; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:50:22 +0000 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:50:22 +0000 To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Keryx Web , PHP Developers Mailing List Message-ID: <20100313185022.GQ13917@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Rasmus Lerdorf , Keryx Web , PHP Developers Mailing List References: <4B9BC369.6030404@keryx.se> <4B9BDA97.7010905@lerdorf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B9BDA97.7010905@lerdorf.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Next major version must be 7 (Lessons learned from the ECMAScript committee) From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > No, not ok. We will call the next release whatever we like. People who > have written books or articles about PHP 6 inferring they knew what the > final state of PHP 6 would be were misguided. We never got to the point > of a final feature set much less a release date. +1 I occasionally teach PHP courses and mention up & coming features, but always with the caveat: nothing is set in stone until it hits the streets. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include