Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?

David McGlone wrote:

On Monday 22 March 2010 20:59:21 Daevid Vincent wrote:

That's okay Larry, YOU don't have to answer. Sorry my post offended you Larry (and anyone else equally offended). ...and yes. I AM angry that they refuse to add functionality to the PHP language that MANY people have been requesting, just because they are stubborn. I'll spare you the links to the threads (no pun intended) as you can easily find them. Have a lovely day! Your best friend always, Daevid.

-----Original Message----- From: Larry Garfield [mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:39 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading? Perhaps if you asked a question you'd get an answer rather than coming off as an angry immature crybaby in your last paragraph... No, I'm not going to dignify your post with a real answer. Come back when you can ask a real question and maybe you'll get a real answer. --Larry Garfield

Is this a case of "it's too hard"? Or is it a case of PHP

core developers

Subscribe to internals. Read the archives. The truth is out there.

just being douche-bags like they are about the whole

That's just rude.

"foo($set_this_parameter=$bar);" bull$hit??! (there is NO

reason NOT to let

the developer choose WHICH of the list of parameters they

want to set in a

There are reasons. You would know this if you had done the legwork before opening your mouth and letting crap fall out.

function/method call aside from being stubborn! Especially

when there are

many parameters and you can't overload functions like you

can in Java or

PHP is NOT Java.

other typed languages)

Nor is it OTHER types languages.

You could implement the features yourself.

Damn, Mr McGlone beat me to it :) When you set the subject line of your rant to something like "Will PHP ever 'grow up'", I expect your argument to at least be rationale, logical, and quite possibly contain a patch. It's called "open source" because you too can make changes. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP