Re: planning future BC Breaks - was Re: [PHP-DEV] fatal static call in php 6.0?

William Candillon wrote:

I think that a macro will be a very nice and powerful solution to this problem but according to me it needs to be done by an external tool.

That already exists ;-) Try cpp -w -P -C <in.php >out.php 2>/dev/null if you don't want to reinvent the wheel :-) Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote:

what you propose would mean a lot of changes to the php code and and the zend engine. The pre processor to allow this will be written as an extension and that extension will have no impact on anybody that doens't like it simply becuase you can disable extensions.

I'm all for making it an extension which is not included in the main PHP. But your point is invalid because if a preprocessor can be done as an extension then so can be my version: It is nothing but a *very* stripped down preprocessor after all. Anyway, I don't really care too much about how such a preprocessor is done as long as a) it's not bundled with PHP by default and b) is not used as an excuse to make incompatible syntax changes without compelling reason. Regards, - Chris