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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:48:47 -0700
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2014, at 23:37, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
>> 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 w=
ill
>> get out of date and become less than useful.  I hope we're able to
>> make that transition.
>
> I think that=E2=80=99s unrealistic. It will always be Zend code first, sp=
ec second.
> HHVM can play catch-up ;)
>
I dunno, with syntax changes being 2/3rd majority and our formal RFC
process in place, I think we (PHP) can reasonably learn to make
updating the spec a formal part of our process.

-Sara