Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76044 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7183 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 20:03:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2014 20:03:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.207 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.207 imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.207] ([192.64.116.207:54742] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E5/69-55539-0A661D35 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:03:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975AA8C0081; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:03:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap2.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id B0tMwx2LkCQv; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:03:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9578A8C0080; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:03:43 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:03:41 +0100 Cc: Rowan Collins , internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <5F3C24CC-B201-41E7-AB6E-610AA5B85568@ajf.me> References: <53CFB2CD.5050703@hoa-project.net> <53D0062A.20905@gmail.com> <3D49DA70-E726-439B-94E7-F8888358C04D@benramsey.com> <53D0FC76.3080604@hoa-project.net> <53D10CE8.8090500@gmail.com> <4212D04D-0241-4887-A9DF-180958A31926@ajf.me> To: Zeev Suraski X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:00, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I think that the language spec initiative is a great initiative, but = let's > not get carried away and start turning things upside down. This would = be > the 'PHP language specification', not 'PHP'. PHP would ideally adhere = to > it. Other implementation (such as hhvm) would probably adhere to them = as > well - but they would still not be named 'PHP', but rather, > implementations of the PHP language or the PHP language spec. This is > consistent with mostly all of the other open source scripting = languages > out there. This is unhelpful, however, as it leaves PHP being ambiguous as to = whether it means the implementation or the spec. You know, the git repository is called php-src. Why don=92t we call the = implementation php-src? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/