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 Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > Are we effectively going to create the original type checking > > > implementation, but in a separate component people would have to > > > install - thereby creating two very different flavors of PHP? > > > > It's clearly a debugging aid for me. So this should be in a > > debugging extension. I doubt any sort of shared hoster would install > > it, but it *does* give people the power to do this for their own > > controlled set-up. Also, if the extension is suddenly not there, the > > app will still work so I am not buying your "two flavours" argument. > > While the code may still work, it won't work *as* *expected*. If the > PHP interpreter can execute the application, then it should provide the > same output given the same input -- and this would not be the case. > That's the two flavours argument. If it doesn't check for the hints, then your application will still work. I will say this once more: this is a *debugging* aid. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug