Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Jani Taskinen wrote:

Yesterday's decisions don't necessarily apply today. ;) (to be "agile")

Fair enough, but it would be nice if the folks involved in the decision, including yourself would then clearly state their reasoning for making,

I think I've pretty clearly stated why I don't like the idea (anymore).

or at least supporting, the decision in the first place and then explain what has changed to make you change your mind.

What has changed is the fact that HEAD is becoming a mess (or already is). Separate tests for different modes, code duplication, etc. Maintaining all this is gonna be hell..and I'm not gonna volunteer doing it especially if it's totally unnecessary (IMO).

It comes down to predicting the future. Whichever way we go, the decision is going to be second-guessed. If we have critical mass for a clean BC break, then I am ok with it. For me personally it would make things a bit easier, but I think it would be a long long time before we saw any large hosts out there switch to a PHP 6 that can't run common PHP 5 apps.

To be totally honest, as long as nobody pays us to do something the way they want, we should do it exactly how WE want. After all, the group doing most of the work is Y! (or former Y!) people? (not to forget 1 or 2 Zend folks) The rest of us are not getting paid for this, like for example Ilia. We have an oportunity to finally get rid of the burden of past "mistakes" but lets not add any replacements for them. ;) --Jani