Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:26:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? | ||
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Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> Jochem Maas wrote:
>> Pierre wrote:
>>> On 7/6/07, Stefan Priebsch <stefan.priebsch@e-novative.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There must be a reason to upgrade to a new PHP version (usually
>>>> features, maybe performance increase etc.). But there also must be no
>>>> reason not to upgrade. But you all know this, it has been said before.
>>> Namespace is one _very_ important reason. If we need a "marketing"
>>> argument for PHP6 outside unicode, it is the one. I would also like to
>>> do not backport it (but we can backport it as well, my main problem is
>>> only this flag).
>>
>> late static binding is another reason (are we still going to get that?)
>
> well .. last I heard we are still stuck on this one, since it would
> require expanding the general zval structure.
oh, I see (well kind of), does this mean it may get taken off the table?
or is it slated as definite (assuming a satisfactory implementation can be
created)?
sorry to be a bore about LSB, it's just that it's the thing I look forward to
most :-), I have missed it since php5 was still in RC and I really believe that
LSB would improve php's OO model.
thank you for your feedback,
regards,
Jochem
>
> regards,
> Lukas
>