Re: NGScan - technical explanation

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 21:49 9/7/2001, Sascha Schumann wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > > So have a patch on your directory as you published it, for those few for > > > which the flex scanner doesn't work (and they *are* very few). Don't break > > > PHP. > > > > Could you explain to me how a completely optional change > > which people need to enable explicitly can break PHP? > > Abstracting the scanner interface, and putting it into PHP, breaks the > whole structure of PHP. Would it work? Of course, I trust you tested > it. A lot of things that would work are things that are wrong, and that > break PHP, from a structural point of view. > This seems rather subjective. Also, if the Zend license will be modified (and, to everyone on this list, that is still an _if_), can't we revert back to the former, non-abstracted structure? John -- John Donagher Application Engineer Intacct Corp. - Powerful Accounting on the Web 408-395-0989 720 University Ave. Los Gatos CA 95032 www.intacct.com Public key available off http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 4024 DF50 56EE 19A3 258A D628 22DE AD56 EEBE 8DDD