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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6 wiki page
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>> >Is there a PHP 6 wiki page for co-ordinating development of and collecting
>> >ideas for PHP6 development?
>> >
>> >There are a lot of idea being thrown around, would be nice if we had a
>> >page (there might be one, but I can't find it).
>> >
> We had one for the last php6 attempt:https://wiki.php.net/todo/php60  but
> we didn't started a new one about/after the recent '6.0 And Moving Forward'
> thread.

Yes I know this is an old thread, but it is probably indicative of the state of 
play? It was last modified in 2006!

Is it worth going through the points there or would it be better simply starting 
with a clean piece of paper and leaving this as history?

Yasuo has already brought up one of the unicode problems that will need to be 
addressed in the phar file name thread. But more fundamentally I don't think 
there was agreement on whether we simply standardise on unicode in the core, or 
allow a single byte mode? 8 years on, I feel that the amount of utf8 material 
that is floating around, the easiest route IS unicode only? Perhaps with a 
compiler switch to disable it if people want the option, rather than an ini 
setting? And I only use 127 character English :) but probably half the emails 
I'm processing have unicode of some sort these days? Certainly all of my 
websites require utf8 without any discussion.

Even 64bit integers get a mention near the bottom! Although it is probably worth 
flagging that most higher end processors these days do have a 256bit integer 
capability! So while 128bit has been mentioned in recent posts, perhaps a little 
more in depth coverage is appropriate if PHP6 is going to be the base for the 
next 10 years?

Many of the bullet points certainly need updating, but how many have actually 
already been addressed in PHP5.X?

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