RE: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 again

> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Jones [mailto:christopher.jones@oracle.com] > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:28 AM > To: internals@lists.php.net; Guilherme Blanco > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 again > > > > On 05/09/2011 07:44 AM, > guilhermeblanco@gmail.com<mailto:guilhermeblanco@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > It seems to me that you are not interested on user's request and > > rather accept/implement only what the features that interest you. It's > > very bad for the language and very bad for all of users. > > Rasmus & Stas have already pointed out this is not valid and lots of user > requests are implemented. > > I'd add that PHP has never had a lot of spare developer capacity. > Programmers are not idly sitting around, waiting for random ideas to code > up. If you feel strongly about a feature you have to convince the core > contributors of its merits and (i) pique the interest of someone capable of > implementing it and then help with testing and documentation, or (ii) > implement it all yourself. > > It's easier than ever to get an SVN account, so contributing would be a good > way to get karma. I agree but also want to emphasize that just because there’s a patch it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea and should be accepted. Of course like Chris points out it’ll significantly increase the chances of people taking it seriously and playing around with the idea. I also think Matthew makes a good point – annotations can be viewed in different ways and arguably there are already quite a lot of possibilities with what exists today. Andi