Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:45:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? | ||
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On Fri, July 6, 2007 11:48 am, Antony Dovgal wrote:
> On 06.07.2007 20:44, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>>> You don't by a Porsche if you need a taxi, why would you install
>>> PHP6 if
>>> you don't need Unicode?
>>
>> Namespaces ;)
>
> This reason is only valid if we don't backport such things from PHP6
> to PHP5
> (5.3, 5.5 or whatever it would be), which I think we should do.
Then PHP 6 is going to be a very weird beast...
It adds only the Unicode feature that a tiny niche market needs,
because everything else will be back-ported to PHP 5.
So the only adopters of PHP 6 will be:
Users who need Unicode
Users who just cannot wait for that new feature to get back-ported
Masochists :-)
For how long will this back-port to PHP 5 policy be in effect?
The whole lifetime of PHP 6?
Until PHP 7 is "stable"?
Until the Unicode advocates get tired of back-porting? :-v
Will users then jump from PHP 5 to 7?
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