Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62862 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38668 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2012 12:53:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Sep 2012 12:53:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sebastian@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sebastian@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 93.190.64.35 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sebastian@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 93.190.64.35 mail-5.de-punkt.de Received: from [93.190.64.35] ([93.190.64.35:51551] helo=mail-5.de-punkt.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B9/27-03079-BDC98405 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:53:48 -0400 Received: (qmail 5895 invoked by uid 511); 6 Sep 2012 12:53:38 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 5891, pid: 5893, t: 0.0473s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.26.1.180?) (php%sebastian-bergmann.de@195.194.77.144) by 0 with ESMTPA; 6 Sep 2012 12:53:38 -0000 Message-ID: <50489CD7.5040003@php.net> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:53:43 +0100 Reply-To: internals@lists.php.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <504836A3.20904@zend.com> <50485647.1060102@hoa-project.net> <50485AA6.4090803@sugarcrm.com> <50486410.4010407@php.net> <5048686E.5080800@sugarcrm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann) On 09/06/2012 10:15 AM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > I propose putting together and RFC and a PoC ASAP, and then we can talk > about facts instead of opinions and biased views on the topic. That would be the reasonable thing to do, yes. But that is easy for me easy to say as I will not be able to help in the process apart from testing. It is up to Nikita (and those who want to help him) to decide whether they want to invest their time and effort into writing a new parser for PHP when it is unclear whether it will be accepted.