Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76064 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41606 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 20:43:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2014 20:43:55 -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 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:37623] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 22/C0-55539-A0071D35 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:43:55 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4BD2400EF; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:43:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id n3VwkVmTqmiI; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:43:53 -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 D436B2400E3; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:43:51 -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 21:43:48 +0100 Cc: Sara Golemon , Rowan Collins , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: 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> <53D11BBF.7040306@gmail.com> <53D15E99.4060803@gmail.com> <87fdfd1a00dcad32843001d02ee10108@mail.gmail.com> <1D993D81-0C61-4759-B3A6-8611232F2A07@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 21:32, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Ok, maybe I missed the context, and if I did apologies for that. Are = you > talking about a standard way of discussing it on internals@ when we = talk > about the spec and different implementations of it? Yeah, sorry if I didn=92t make myself clear. There are various = unofficial internal names for the original PHP implementation including = =93Zend PHP=94, and I think we should settle on one for internal use. We = can have it be the =93nickname=94, much like CPython is the nickname of = the original Python implementation. > In that case, my vote (in the risk of agreeing with someone I almost = never > agree with) would be calling it 'php.net PHP', as that's exactly what = it > is. php.net is not just the website but all of the php.net > infrastructure, the codebase, bug tracking system, etc. - seems like = the > most accurate name for it. =93PHP.net PHP=94 isn=92t the nicest of names. I think CPHP, analogous = to CPython is maybe the best of the available options. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/