Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:78872 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44707 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2014 13:29:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Nov 2014 13:29:18 -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] ([192.64.116.200:37402] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4A/C0-39904-D2F02645 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:29:18 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5379DB00068; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:29:15 -0500 (EST) 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 m8BNLYn3mI2q; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:29:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.26.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0FBEDB00092; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:29:13 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.0 \(1990.1\)) In-Reply-To: <001801cffdb2$3f545090$bdfcf1b0$@tutteli.ch> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:29:11 +0000 Cc: Chris Wright , PHP Internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <3537025B-EE94-4D37-A934-04B55AC449F6@ajf.me> References: <000201cff3b2$37615e50$a6241af0$@tutteli.ch> <001101cffda8$9f56e980$de04bc80$@tutteli.ch> <001801cffdb2$3f545090$bdfcf1b0$@tutteli.ch> To: Robert Stoll X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1990.1) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] forbid use declaration outside of a namespace in PHP 7 From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) > On 11 Nov 2014, at 13:20, Robert Stoll wrote: >=20 >> I would say that the lack of anyone saying "no, don't do this" = probably means everyone is OK with it. Suggest you work up a >> patch and PR it, then ping the list to highlight it for further = discussion. >>=20 >=20 > Sounds reasonable but unfortunately I do not have time at the moment = to work up a patch and when I have time (in half a year or so) it might = be too late for PHP 7 and the change would need to wait for PHP 8 since = it is not backward compatible. That is the reason why I hope we could = agree on the topic, remove the corresponding sentence from the spec and = I could patch up a fix when I have time for it. I don=E2=80=99t like the sound of changing the spec before the = implementation. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/