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To: David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Integrating Zend Optimizer+ into the PHP distribution
From: philip@roshambo.org (Philip Olson)


On Mar 7, 2013, at 1:00 PM, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote:

> On 2013-03-07, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
>> On 03/07/2013 09:01 AM, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
>> 
>>> So my proposal is to slow down for a minute and not call this RFC
>>> accepted or not until we can come to some consensus as to if it
>>> classifies as a language change or not... Better to clarify for the
>>> health of the project than to plow through and risk causing further
>>> strife...
>> 
>> And how do you propose we do that? Vote on it? Will that vote need 2/3
>> as well? I think most of us accepted that language-level changes meant
>> syntax changes. Things that add new features to the language itself.
> 
> I think the only thing requiring a 2/3 vote would be the decision on
> wheather to enable it by default or not. As long as it's in ext/
> and not enabled a 50% should be sufficient.

Shouldn't we be focusing on how this makes PHP better? And not nitpick 
about a percentage point or two? 

This makes PHP better. Please, PHP, add it to 5.5. 

Regards,
Philip