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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:37:07 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Specification
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 10:15 +0100, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa wrote:
>    * the historical interpreter [1],

How is that historic? It is the prime standard with most active
contributors etc.


> Finally, I think that internal@ is responsible to start such a 
> standardization process because this group has made the historical 
> interpreter.

It is building the reference implementation. If other implementations
add new features they can and they can propose it for inclusion in the
reference implementation by which it becomes part of the language
definition. While old parts of the implementation are only documented in
code and reference documentation form the RFC process provides more
architectural of new features.

johannes