Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

On Aug 13, 2005, at 2:29 AM, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

Marcus Boerger wrote:

9. __toString) everywhere, but i already said i'll take care of that unless i am being held back. So now go for that or live with the fact that php is meant to generate html pages which is text output. Thus sooner or later your objects create text simplifying that aas much as possible is at least to me mor ethan welcome.

+1. Either that or just drop __toString altogether. Right now it's about worse than useless, as it's hard to understand exactly when it will and won't be called.

10. namespace support (we are telling everyone php is ready for the big soup. In those scenarios you often find big teams and any help allowing things like dedicated responisbilities and preventing communication problems is more then welcome.)

-1 before, -1 still.

A big +1 for namespaces, -1 for namespacing existing internal functions (or somehow importing them by default so that they can be referenced by their current name.

13. eventually cleanup parameter order. Guys who knows in which functions the needle is first or second? My solution is to look up every function always which is a bit inefficient. I know the param order in c/C++ and sometimes in java but in php storing that info is impossible and useless so far.

-1

-1 George