Re: "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan<ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:16 +0100, Tony Marston wrote: >> Don't be so pedantic. PHP 6 does not exist in a live, production-ready >> version. It is still under development and has not even reached the beta >> stage. Anyone who writes a book which documents the features of PHP 6 is >> being very premature as those features may change at any moment. The >> features will not be frozen until the first GA release. >> >> -- >> Tony Marston >> http://www.tonymarston.net >> http://www.radicore.org >> >> "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:1249585209.2818.0.camel@localhost... >> > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:24 +0100, Tony Marston wrote: >> >> PHP 6 does not exist yet, >> > >> > Funny, that's not what the PHP site says: >> > >> > http://snaps.php.net/ >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Ash >> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >> > >> >> >> > What I'm trying to say is that writing a book is not premature, as the > feature list is likely not to change much, if at all. So what makes you > think it is premature of the authors? > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I'd be surprised if the feature stays the same at all. Just take a look at http://wiki.php.net/summits/pdmnotesmay09 and see what they're cooking up. Like I said before, PHP6 isn't feature-complete, and I don't suspect it's near it either, so it's definitely way premature to write a book on PHP6 and silly to buy one.