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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

On Jul 22, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

> On 22 Jul 2014, at 23:37, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> =
wrote:
>=20
>> The big question here, though, is whether, going forward, we'll be =
able to mentally switch to a "spec first" mentality.  If not, the spec =
will get out of date and become less than useful.  I hope we're able to =
make that transition.
>=20
> I think that=92s unrealistic. It will always be Zend code first, spec =
second. HHVM can play catch-up ;)

IMO, I think this renders the spec useless. If we=92re not going to have =
a =93spec first=94 mentality, then what is the point of having a spec? =
It benefits us all to think =93spec first.=94

-Ben=