It strikes me that there are two sides here
One are insistant that Date will happen in a version of PHP5 while
others seem to think that it was agreed that this would be part of PHP6.
Currently if ISP were to roll 5.1 out without warning to users probably
more sites than were affected by the 'reference' bug fix would be
broken. We have seen that PHP4.4 was just seen as a bug fix to 4.3 and
so 5.1 will be treated the same way - by ISP's - and then we have weeks
of getting what were stable sites working again.
IF Date is to stay in 5.1, then can we please change it's name so that
it is not a source of 'unnecessary' site failures. I don't see that it
ACTUALLY needs to be in at all while it's still being developed, and it
could just as easilly be included as a PECL module ? and then rolled
into PHP6 or tested with PHP5 as USERS want to do?
The real problem is how to get round the fact that 'namespace
conventions' were not documented when PHP5 was released? I've used :: in
C code for many years, I don't see why there has to be such a heated
debate over adding namespace now?
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Lester Caine
L.S.Caine Electronic Services
Treasurer - Firebird Foundation Inc.