Re: my take on PHP 6, part 2

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > I put my thoughts and summary of the recent discussions about what > could be PHP 6 here: > > https://wiki.php.net/ideas/php6 > > Things like "we should name it php7" has not been covered, for one > obvious reasons. > > It is not a TODO list but a list of proposals I would like to see us > discuss, work on, push harder. They are features, changes, etc. I have > been hearing for years and things we should really give more > attention. > > Please do not mass reply to this thread but prefer to create one new > thread per topic. Who knows, we may get enough input to create one > wiki page per topic. And if you are lucky enough, we may even have > some working groups for each of them? > > Happy reading, comments, feedback and the likes welcome! > I'd add : - Change compiler design : build a new hookable AST-based compiler that would allow modules (extensions) to hook into the AST for custom compilation rules. - Start a reflection about threaded VM : We could start designing a threaded model and use it for I/Os at first. Our VM should be able to do several things at the same time and we should prevent it from waiting for operation results (I/Os). - If we could redesign objects and arrays so that they could be interchanged in many functions accepting arrays would be nice. Both arrays and objects could share a common structure holding the data that would be used when using such functions. - Add new structures such as Generics, we need that - Extend type hinting to scalars - Improve PHP syntax so that compiler can make optimizations, such as having allowing the declaration of read only variables : "public static const $a". More ideas to come... Julien