Re: Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] Integrating SPL

At 10:19 AM 27/6/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote:

The big hurry about beta 1 is that it has been lingering for too long and I think the only way to push PHP 5 is to finally get a beta out there. We can keep on compromising indefinitely because there'll always be that one last fix someone wants to do to the PHP 5 codebase and then we'd never get a beta out of the door. Personally, I don't think this code needs to be in the tree for beta 1. From past beta experience we'll probably have another one within a month (because ppl will finally be using/debugging our code), so we can put that in beta 2. I happen to agree. But I think we should set some sort-of "deadline" on this. Ie, if it doesn't hold up beta 1, then we should have it done by beta 2. How does that sound for a compromise?

We should decide and implement whatever is decided on by beta2.

So how do we get a formal spec for the changes (starting with nicer names, i.e. Iterator instead of spl_foreach)? :) It's probably best if you take Sterling's email and try and come to a final set of interfaces and a very very short explanation where relevant of what it'll do and then we can aye/nay each part. What's wrong with my interfaces? ;-D

Ugly names? :) I'm not very sure about bringing things like cast overloading into the language space but we can argue about that if/when we have the final list. If you say what you did is final we can start with that. Andi