Re: Status of "Make primitive types reserved words" in PHP 5.4

even more than vote, we can veto it due to a huge BC break (use of primitive names inside a namespace, f.e.) On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:12 PM, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote: > Hi Internals, > > just a heads up on the proposed "make primitives types reserved words" > change.  the current votes are 36 to 21 in favor of implementing it. > > This change has a big impact on backward compatibility and will break > existing code. Possible work arounds as discussed on the mailinglist > have their own problems and inconsistencies, while still not solving > all issues. > > Therefore Stas and I think this change is not ready for inclusion in > PHP 5.4 and will not make it into the alpha 3. > > I think we all can agree here that with just a minimal lead in votes > and not reaching a 2/3 majority and a lot of core devs rejecting it, > it's better to leave it out at the moment. > > - David > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org