Re: What should be in 5.3?

Hello Lukas, I added 'MFH namespace' to the TODO list. Otherwise I am fine. For the given amount of stuff with my name on it I'd need some time though. marcus Monday, August 27, 2007, 11:30:22 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > In the spirit of forwards compabitility I think the 5.3 release will we > very important regardless if we keep or remove the unicode switch in > PHP6. From my POV 5.1 and 5.2 have mainly covered stability and > performance improvements on top of the addition of several important > extensions like PDO, Json etc. > In terms of changes to the actual language the main thing that sticks in > my head where things like E_STRICT and is_a vs. instanceOf. So now with > 5.3 we might want to look ahead towards PHP6 and make sure that we add > whatever makes sense to have in 5.x that will ease the life for people > writing forward compatible code for PHP6. It might also be a chance to > revisit the question of how we want to approach strictness and deprecation. > Forward compatibility: > - binary cast > - namespaces > - ... > Strictness: > - What is our philisophy, is OO more strict than procedural or is there > no such differntiation? I remember the discussions about dynamic member > variables, number incrementing throwing notices inconsistently, > signature rewriting. I fear I am opening a can of worms with this one. > Although I disagree with the bulk of the decisions on this topic in the > past I am not trying to reopen the discussions, I just hope to get a > clearer definition on our philosiphie for future discussions > Deprecation: > - Split of deprecation from E_STRICT > - Rule for deprecation > See the todo wiki for some hints on things currently planned (or that I > heard people thinking about planning): > http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP53 > http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP60 > regards, > Lukas Best regards, Marcus