Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
| From: | Jani Taskinen | Date: | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:26:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? | ||
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Antony Dovgal kirjoitti:
On 06.07.2007 14:04, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:Well, that's what I've tried to say for a long time. We're forking whether we want it or not. So why not make it official? I'd rather maintain 2 branches than 2 "versions" in same branch. And 2 set of tests..and and.. --JaniTo me it boils down how we want to maintain the "fork": 1) PHP5 and PHP6 2) PHP6 unicode off/on (with PHP5 in maintenance mode) Considering that people will not jump on PHP6 immediately anyways, I think 1) is more realistic, if we make best efforts to back port new features to PHP5, but still require that new features go into PHP6 first. Some features might not get back ported and that is a somewhat unfriendly nudge towards PHP6. So it goes.I tend to agree with this POV more and more.