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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length
 and integer
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> I agree that the 64-bit RFC doesn't affect syntax.  However it does
> materially
> affect the language, so I believe it requires a 2/3 majority.

I'd consider it a language-changing RFC.  The 2/3 majority is related to
material changes in the language, and as you said, syntax changes are just
one (although the most common) such example.  The 50%+1 is really for
extension-level changes - mostly new functions/extensions, moving stuff
to/from PECL, etc.

Zeev