Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:71792 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81338 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2014 09:38:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Jan 2014 09:38:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=krebs.seb@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=krebs.seb@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.216.178 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: krebs.seb@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.216.178 mail-qc0-f178.google.com Received: from [209.85.216.178] ([209.85.216.178:48571] helo=mail-qc0-f178.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C2/B7-42724-A7D1AE25 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 04:38:02 -0500 Received: by mail-qc0-f178.google.com with SMTP id m20so4493082qcx.23 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:37:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=vApBhYOp48iz3cScVmiW/QJ/eS3fCyzY4JENaEcEaA4=; b=Uuc966eawRipAzaz4ikEFyP2gfx+U6vVgAeY4t2fHpNICc8LDibJIpnX/9XNfF+SJf j3AxFVGDqZWBLqEgtFUjqLG78GfR8qmvQBTMWeDIOcmkhXyBK4VDkUeMmu4JnoasMikv jS1UfCHCKHwD31BZOEgSSmBj8RlT2xqVIATvcaEW6B8Exmf0ab3K0nLgdS36G7xAZUBr 34LGVNM2TZwSIdc8oqoqD3CWhajfe+rQdciUnJhZhWDASxbpgHAxQiq3RWhBZnAc79GN rVD/NXalIre5W+Hfwbc2mQMGz/A+WmqmCCdtnmy09c88V1VfTjWh69zi/YTkGLnTqJbc kHQQ== X-Received: by 10.140.49.200 with SMTP id q66mr18923533qga.103.1391074679491; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:37:59 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.87.151 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:37:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <52E8C097.6080208@lsces.co.uk> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:37:19 +0100 Message-ID: To: Martin Keckeis Cc: "Kingsquare.nl - Robin Speekenbrink" , PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113518a420aca304f12cd06d Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] some thoughts about php 6 From: krebs.seb@gmail.com (Sebastian Krebs) --001a113518a420aca304f12cd06d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 2014-01-30 Martin Keckeis > Like Robin Speekenbrink already written from the view of the userland > > > As to give my personal list of priorities for the language as a whole: > > - really make the new(er) features shine vs the old and gray > > + 1 changes > - consistent 64 bit support (hopefully already 5.6) > - constistent Multibyte support > - string/array/scalar OOP style (like suggested from Pierre in his first > post with BC compability) > - everything which improves performance > > -1 changes > - rename functions names > Just because I had this in mind for days now, but didn't know, if that comes up already, or if it is just a stupid idea: Wouldn't it be possible, that somebody maintains a PECL-extension (or even userland), that keeps the compatibility to pre-PHP6 function names and parameter order? So the core could become "clean" of inconsistencies, but legacy code should still work. > - reorder function parameters > - case sensitivity > -- github.com/KingCrunch --001a113518a420aca304f12cd06d--