Re: Hold off 5.4

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > On 2010-11-23, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Felipe Pena wrote: > > > . classes named as any of the type hint scalar types > > > do not work anymore > > > aka class int {} > > > > Yeah, there is a slight hint of a BC break in case you have a class > > named "int" or "float" etc. But there is: > > http://uk.php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.tips.php > > > > Perhaps we can reduce the current list of classes: > > int, integer, real, double, string, binary, scalar, array, object, > > bool, boolean > > to what the manual uses though (for prototypes): > > int, float, string, binary, scalar, array, object, bool > > (Point #18 at > > http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/chapter-conventions.php) > > Sorry, but this is actually a pretty grave BC break. > > Currently, you can do the following: > > namespace Foo\Validator; > > class Int {} During our namespace discussion, this is exactly what I warned about. In order to make use of namespaces, you need to have atleast two "elements" in your class names otherwise we can still never introduce a new class. But that was not listened too. > As Sebastian noted, it seems this should be addressed with the new > lexer; I'd argue that if the current type hinting must introduce new > keywords, it should wait until the new lexer is in place in order to > insulate end-users from such changes. The new lexer however, is a slower; so not a viable solution right now. > With a defined release process, *everyone* knows what must be done, by > when, making the process more transparent and *gasp* democratic. Well, I don't think we've ever been democratic. I probably think that that wouldn't even work. Also, I think an alpha has pretty much been announce nicely on time for people to know what's happening. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug