Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:73588 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52363 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2014 01:20:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Apr 2014 01:20:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=xfsgpr@hotmail.com; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=php-php-dev@m.gmane.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: php-php-dev@m.gmane.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.91.229.3 plane.gmane.org Received: from [80.91.229.3] ([80.91.229.3:51227] helo=plane.gmane.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F2/61-44527-6C80E335 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 20:20:06 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WVsnb-00049L-8r for internals@lists.php.net; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:20:03 +0200 Received: from 90.197.47.143 ([90.197.47.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:20:03 +0200 Received: from xfsgpr by 90.197.47.143 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:17:22 +0100 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <533C0713.9070106@eliw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.197.47.143 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] About PHP6 ... From: xfsgpr@hotmail.com (Good Guy) On 02/04/2014 18:57, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Eli wrote: > >> Hello everyone. I've been hitting a lot of conferences recently, and >> found myself having the same discussion with multiple members of the >> community. And many of them have 'heavily encouraged me' to bring this >> discussion up here. And Julien's recent PHP6 email, reminded me that I >> hadn't done so. >> >> The short form is: >> >> We should not name the next version of PHP: PHP6, for 2 reasons: >> 1. It will cause confusion in those least able to adapt >> 2. It costs us nothing, hurts us in no way, to name it something else >> > There is potential for confusion regardless of what we do. If it's PHP 6, > we get conflicts with existing literature. If it's PHP 7, this will lead to > confusion about a version number being skipped. (Which is imho a pretty big > wtf moment.) > > I find it quite ridiculous to break our versioning scheme over this kind of > nonesense. > > Nikita > I have to agree with this. -- Good Guy Website: http://mytaxsite.co.uk Website: http://html-css.co.uk Email: http://mytaxsite.co.uk/contact-us