Re: [RFC] SPL & PCRE as always enabled in core

Hello Pierre, Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 11:21:48 PM, you wrote: > Hello, > On 6/5/07, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote: > I sniped the rest as we can argue endlessly about what should be in or > out, I think I made my point > However, in case I did not make it, here it is: >> Just a standard OOP function. Nothign that belongs into the engine. > If it is standard OO, it belongs to the engine, the core of the > language. And the PHP internals developers (as for any language > related decisions) should have the responsibility not a couple of > extension maintainers. While the engine changes the language, SPL only faciliates what the engine allows. For instance you can write any number of exceptions but SPL gives a nice number of default exception classes with a documented semantics. It is similar to the exception classes in C++/STL and there they are also not part of the language but of the extension (STL in this case). And I tried to do the same for PHP just as we did the same with ext/standard which hosts stuff that is part of the C API rahther than the C lnaguage. Where sizof/count is the exception to the rule. We have it in the ext while C/C++ have it in the language. Well it returns size_t which is part of the API rather than the language (damn broken design imo). Best regards, Marcus