Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62852 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95310 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2012 08:47:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Sep 2012 08:47:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=packrat@nznet.gen.nz; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=packrat@nznet.gen.nz; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain nznet.gen.nz from 210.54.141.251 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: packrat@nznet.gen.nz X-Host-Fingerprint: 210.54.141.251 mta04.xtra.co.nz Received: from [210.54.141.251] ([210.54.141.251:40071] helo=mta01.xtra.co.nz) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 3B/50-27906-A3368405 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:47:55 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [222.155.174.59]) by mta01.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20120906084742.OFBQ19666.mta01.xtra.co.nz@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 20:47:42 +1200 Message-ID: <50486327.9050606@nznet.gen.nz> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:47:35 +1200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <50474A30.1090802@nznet.gen.nz> <5047D4A6.9030003@sugarcrm.com> In-Reply-To: <5047D4A6.9030003@sugarcrm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process From: packrat@nznet.gen.nz ("Morgan L. Owens") On 2012-09-06 10:39, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >... and no real > benefit for average PHP user. > Well, apart from perhaps leaving them with a simpler language that doesn't have the inconsistencies and corner cases that currently exist (and documented ad nauseum) not because of any design decision but "because the parser is written that way".