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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification
From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann)

On 07/23/2014 12:48 AM, Sara Golemon wrote:
> 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.

  Requiring an RFC that changes syntax (or core semantics) to provide a
  patch for the specification in addition to the tests should suffice, no?