Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:53128 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46025 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2011 11:12:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jun 2011 11:12:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.161.170 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.161.170 mail-gx0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.161.170] ([209.85.161.170:63957] helo=mail-gx0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 37/13-30784-5B70EED4 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:12:55 -0400 Received: by gxk27 with SMTP id 27so2245758gxk.29 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:12:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZUsGYSTvRWZMPdvDCEgHx4YXsTNFJapEo4GItxsKpT0=; b=MWlNZS1ss26GwsaYkgzW6RniBLbwJeXHkdx665IKPNL5Mt4R3O3wzRRHjhwp00Uv2s VgytEicZpHLc1Ivzwu2EHKFMFs7Izngf79iUJ0qRSZrM1+zkt48mTl9CPte4Ug0zJxqx 1OS/c0T4ko+mwk86jYEVpzbOWpBQWMSP/p5Fc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=AgyyPJ7M7mIeIjExJE9VP0V8VJ22DSmtokKZfNKAyMD7Zg+4xvAOk/Oe0TE7UtCMXs VtCg+yWY29fh4fDQYUr3OkFwLztjns8NRHfK7w4+B1CtZQgVa+OybsHfGuucU/Ucg2Ii s7ykpeXvpaB+0jEHlXF5Sj3rYtgtk3e+7gkSU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.125.130 with SMTP id z2mr432545yhh.198.1307445168102; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.147.168.18 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 04:12:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:12:48 +0200 Message-ID: To: Derick Rethans Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: > Hi, > > Short-array syntax, Native JSON, "Currying". I can > almost only say one thing: WHY?! > > And because of that, I'd like to forward a mail by Zeev from a few years > ago. I think it applies now even more than then: I'd to disagree. I love activities on the list, even for features I would never want to see implemented in php. It is how it works, it is how it should work, Getting constant new requests, discussing new possible features, moving forward. Even if it does not mean it has to be uncontrollable and that we should implement every 2nd request. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org