Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:66223 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14868 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2013 22:50:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Feb 2013 22:50:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=johannes@schlueters.de; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=johannes@schlueters.de; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain schlueters.de from 217.114.211.66 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: johannes@schlueters.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.114.211.66 config.schlueters.de Received: from [217.114.211.66] ([217.114.211.66:59572] helo=config.schlueters.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F3/D8-10787-8CAEB215 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:50:50 -0500 Received: from [192.168.2.20] (ppp-88-217-65-93.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.65.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by config.schlueters.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16A4265ED5; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:50:45 +0100 (CET) To: Bob Weinand Cc: Sara Golemon , PHP List Developers Mailing In-Reply-To: References: <512BA9A6.6030006@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:51:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1361832695.2376.91.camel@guybrush> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow (...)->foo() expressions not only for `new` From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=) On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 23:20 +0100, Bob Weinand wrote: > Don't consider it as a syntax change, only as a bugfix. It must have been a > bug, that this degree of conformity was not yet reached. :-P > > It's only stupid to vote about such microscopic changes as long as there are > no real arguments against it in the discussion preceding the implementation. This affects lots of tools: IDEs, Code Analyzers, ... It might also affect other syntax changes one might think of. Not a small thing. Please mind the few processes we have. johannes