Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:71893 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55821 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2014 21:12:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Jan 2014 21:12:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:48593] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 95/50-54292-9A11CE25 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:12:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 370BDE203C; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:12:07 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:12:07 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Christopher Jones cc: PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <52EC0B34.8080109@oracle.com> Message-ID: References: <52EAF0A3.2000001@oracle.com> <1d5850561e0ef9e7739c7e7b7b0448d0.squirrel@webmail.klapt.com> <52EC0B34.8080109@oracle.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Christopher Jones wrote: > PS It's a pain to be micro-analyzing like this, but that's what the > PHP community got when it decided to formalize the feature adoption > process. Part of the problem here is that that process is worded very poorly. There is way too much space for people's interpretation; and that will mean that in the future, more of this rushing is likely going to happen. cheers, Derick