Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50449 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12461 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2010 14:17:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Nov 2010 14:17:53 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 65.19.76.48 unknown Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:17:52 -0500 Received: from [65.19.76.48] ([65.19.76.48:26642] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 88/B0-08358-01DCBEC4 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:17:52 -0500 Message-ID: <88.B0.08358.01DCBEC4@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <887FE7CFF6F8DE4BB3A9535F53AFD06A2C5B099F@il-ex2.zend.net> User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) X-Posted-By: 65.19.76.48 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Hold off 5.4 From: weierophinney@php.net (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) On 2010-11-23, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > Are we effectively going to create the original type checking > > implementation, but in a separate component people would have to > > install - thereby creating two very different flavors of PHP? > > It's clearly a debugging aid for me. So this should be in a debugging > extension. I doubt any sort of shared hoster would install it, but it > *does* give people the power to do this for their own controlled set-up. > Also, if the extension is suddenly not there, the app will still work so > I am not buying your "two flavours" argument. While the code may still work, it won't work *as* *expected*. If the PHP interpreter can execute the application, then it should provide the same output given the same input -- and this would not be the case. That's the two flavours argument. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc