Re: [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Anatol Belski wrote: > On Fri, January 31, 2014 01:38, Christopher Jones wrote: > > A quick question: am I right to assume that because this vote has > > widespread impact on PHP it needs 2/3 majority per > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/voting ? > > > > It's not totally clear that the change is covered by any of the > > examples in the voting RFC, but I see the 64 bit project as > > affecting the language as a whole (for better or worse!) > > > catching up on this now as this was delayed by the mail issues. > > I'm not a native speaker, however what i read here > > [QUOTE] > We also need to ensure, as much as possible, that the decision isn't based > on some arbitrary circumstances (such as a temporary marginal majority for > a certain school of thought). For these reasons, a feature affecting the > language itself (new syntax for example) will be considered as 'accepted' > if it wins a 2/3 of the votes. Other RFCs require 50% + 1 votes to get > 'accepted'. > [/QUOTE] > > sounds for 50%+1, as it affects not the language itself (no syntax > changes, etc.) but its implementation. Even in such an unusual case :) I am not sure, but syntax is only given as an example there. And I would argue that this is definitely a language change. Having a stable and easy extension API has always been one of PHP's greatest strenghts, especially in the early days where PHP was a very thin glue layer. Actually, I would argue that PHP is *still* such a layer, even though people write massive libraries and frameworks. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine