Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76472 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 11727 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2014 10:33:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Aug 2014 10:33:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:41514] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F0/00-11625-51F3BE35 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:33:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D8AB0007B; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:34:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rG9VHktGxpOv; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:34:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (05439dda.skybroadband.com [5.67.157.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 95885B00087; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:34:35 -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: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:34:32 +0100 Cc: Pierre Joye , Ferenc Kovacs , James , Sara Golemon , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <942D2AF6-BDC2-4214-BD58-4B5945C28CE3@ajf.me> To: Peter Cowburn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Disallow multiple default blocks in a single switch statement From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 13 Aug 2014, at 11:24, Peter Cowburn wrote: >=20 > On 13 August 2014 10:56, Andrea Faulds wrote: >=20 > > However, I tend to think that we should simply target php7 for any = of > > these fixes. No need of endless arguing and keeps everyone happy. >=20 > I=92d rather we fix these in 5.7, which I=92m a proponent of and would = come out sooner. This way we don=92t have nonsenses like this specified = for three years. You might be misunderstanding me. The thing is we have to specify the = behaviour of 5.6 now, probably this year. PHP 7 will likely take at = least 2 years (I know some think differently, but realistically 7 will = not just be phpng and even that has problems), but 5.7 would come out = presumably next year. In which case, that means we=92d be able to fix = the language in just a year and hence make a 5.7 spec with the 5.6 = issues fixed. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/