Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75906 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 21397 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2014 22:36:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jul 2014 22:36:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=php@golemon.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=php@golemon.com; sender-id=softfail Received-SPF: softfail (pb1.pair.com: domain golemon.com does not designate 209.85.192.169 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: php@golemon.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.192.169 mail-pd0-f169.google.com Received: from [209.85.192.169] ([209.85.192.169:60322] helo=mail-pd0-f169.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4D/A7-21666-687EEC35 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:36:55 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f169.google.com with SMTP id y10so373592pdj.28 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:36:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=64Ekdgl/B6DMB3Hhc7ITZ/Xocyntgz19srcOfAV8dnM=; b=OTlAJb2heJQJVhipuO6ZFFA0+mZjLWw+cnnsHzDoCLF9ulLs5034w9LcP5KxRI/o76 SLmd+x/ApVDg+Ml4VQQ0nxva7UUT3Su3uCVE8pNKczUqtsaPDAh11SMyPuyChPra8ko1 5Y2EY8dvZQ9lExMamde+FpJDaXORHdr3e/xqeBTi7OpMJzAyXB6aSakgqYBhJesFFuxH nJp2n0MUvjMUdtTJmf4ejHkNMP1+T4Kr7ah/hpViRtS1Z0rAoi6T64lDykD/C+A/uzN+ zUTymneO4KeOq8MVhJSZS/AXXkGsVIElk9z6QNExp2zuPpQXAO3IpFB25Oj15HCBeIK9 7B1A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl0cO86p2JlQ4ng0xB2EmLS/8fIQ9NpgNjcV/oimPDYZ3dxMYR56LvWPTpcNsf3gHNXic1Z MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.119.174 with SMTP id kv14mr37708073pab.52.1406068612349; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: php@golemon.com Received: by 10.70.33.208 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:36:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [173.252.71.189] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:36:52 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: krMVmVe3KllP_qzozL-h743xdWw Message-ID: To: Andrea Faulds Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon) On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > On 22 Jul 2014, at 23:32, Sara Golemon wrote: >> As you suppose, some of that bulk is down to the kinds of things that >> the Unified Variable Syntax RFC is trying to resolve. On the plus >> side, the guy who's been writing the spec is insanely detail oriented >> (and has experience writing language specs), so all those inconsistent >> semantics are represented. :) > > Does it handle the fact that =E2=80=980xa=E2=80=99 is variously zero and = ten in string to integer conversions? :) > Yep. Isn't PHP a gorgeous language? :p