Re: Approaching the First Draft [of a language spec]

> Thus, what we need is a descriptive specification, rather than a defining > specification. Much like the ANSI C++ spec is or at least used to be > useless because not a single compiler in existence implemented it (and is > thus rather useless for practical purposes), defining a spec that is not > backed up by the existing implementation would be useless for end users. Well, C++ has been basically reinvented during the standardization process. I don't see this happening with PHP. The base for this specification will be PHP 3/the Zend engine, so you don't really need to fear that the Zend engine and the specification will be incompatible. I'm not sure how the end-user will be able to benefit from a list of syntactical rules. Can you elaborate what you have in mind? - Sascha