Re: Critical Thinking, or Several "Why" Questions

GamblerZG wrote: >> You can ask about a question. You can even try to improve the >> performance of a function. But at the end of the day unless you can >> come up with something that will do what the PHP community at large >> expects *and* it is faster it's not going to happen. > > How exactly "PHP community at large" supposed to verbalize its > expectations, if not through discussion of language features? IMO, by > posting statements like the one above you suppress (possible) discussions. > That's not at all what I meant. Perhaps you simply misunderstand what I have been saying all along? PHP is a do-ocracy. You do something to make it better because you have built a better mousetrap. The "core" developer team for PHP is very small, the number of people (like you) asking for new features / improved performance / bugfixes is extremely large. So if you can actually provide code to do what you suggest... well, the dev team always likes that! I am not suppressing discussion of PHP, but rather I am being pragmatic. You are of course entitled to your own opinion. >> Trust me, the core PHP dev team wants to improve performance just like >> you do. > > They are human and may miss some possibilities. I do not say that I will > necessarily point to those possibilities, but still it is possible. > Moreover, developers might not use the language the way I do. And rolling your own is a solution to this problem. > >> It's just that they also have to do silly little things like >> maintain BC. They'll break BC if there's a really, REALLY good reason >> why, but most of the time the answer is no. > > I did not ask developers to break BC. In fact, I did not ask developers > to do anything at all. Super, then we're all happy. -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins

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