Re: some thoughts about php 6

On 30 January 2014 09:37, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-01-30 Martin Keckeis <martin.keckeis1@gmail.com> > > > Like Robin Speekenbrink already written from the view of the userland > > > > > As to give my personal list of priorities for the language as a whole: > > > - really make the new(er) features shine vs the old and gray > > > > + 1 changes > > - consistent 64 bit support (hopefully already 5.6) > > - constistent Multibyte support > > - string/array/scalar OOP style (like suggested from Pierre in his first > > post with BC compability) > > - everything which improves performance > > > > -1 changes > > - rename functions names > > > > Just because I had this in mind for days now, but didn't know, if that > comes up already, or if it is just a stupid idea: Wouldn't it be possible, > that somebody maintains a PECL-extension (or even userland), that keeps the > compatibility to pre-PHP6 function names and parameter order? So the core > could become "clean" of inconsistencies, but legacy code should still work. > That sounds like the PHP_Compat PEAR package [1], which is looking for a maintainer. [1] http://pear.php.net/package/php_compat > > > > > - reorder function parameters > > - case sensitivity > > > > > > -- > github.com/KingCrunch >