Re: alpha2 scheduled

2008/10/28 marius popa <mapopa@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Steph Fox <steph@php.net> wrote: >> Hi Marius, >> >> Don't know i never saw something so ugly since c++ templates syntax >> I find it funny that php is designed by committee and no one listen to >> the community >> === >> >> You have written to this list a few times before. Here's a brief summary of >> your posts: >> >> 1) We should be moving to git not svn >> 2) We should drop $ for variables because it makes PHP 'bloated' >> 3) Mingw compilation (which we don't support) fails >> 4) If we want your help supporting firebird under Windows we should build it >> and send you a report >> 5) We're on slashdot (for \) >> >> === >> And the team continues even if is an bad decision (they call it >> technical one) if you see it from the point of view of syntax elegance >> it's not so pretty even c++ looks better . >> === >> >> I'm not even going to comment on that. >> >> - Steph > yes is true that i like to have strong opinions and yes i could be > wrong in most of them > but when all the comunity screems at the namespace issue i think > core developers should be more diplomatic and offer the good solution not > close the eyes and wash the hands and go forward > > an semisolution would be an php.ini variable > like > NAMSPACE_SEPARATOR="::" > so if you have an issue with your classes can be reset to "\" or > whatever with ini_set An ini value for a language operator? I don't think I know any language that lets the end developers change the way a language looks like by a configurative, and honestly that doesn't solve any issues if someone uses :: as seperator unless :: is disabled. <sarcasm> Why not put namespaces in its own Zend extension then? </sarcasm> > > i think it's easy to be done if i look at the patch that created the > backslash separator issue > http://pear.php.net/~greg/backslash.sep.patch.txt Parts of the code is generated by RE2C so its not really as easy as it may look > >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > developer flamerobin.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Kalle Sommer Nielsen