Re: [Zend Engine 2] Don't loose sight of the big picture

Zeev wrote: [snip] > >On another matter, does the big change to the engine mark a good time to make > >a concerted effort on tidying the language up a bit? I refer to the business > >of case sensitivity for function names, consistency with the order of > >arguments to functions, and consistency across the function name space which > >we discussed at some length a few months ago. > > Generally I'd say yes, as if this does come out as PHP 5.0, this would be > the right time to tidy things up. However, we should only pick up projects > which we can deliver in a reasonable time frame(tm). Maybe we can do it, maybe we can't. I believe that the first thing to do is try to get a group consensus (again) - however, this time, at least we can say that we have a major version coming out. I take it that this does give us *some* of license to break some backwards compatibility? :) --zak