Re: PHP6 thoughts about Engine changes

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 3/5/14, 5:56 AM, Julien Pauli wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I wrote a wiki page about my thoughts for engine BC breaking changes >> in the next PHP5++ (PHP6 ?) >> >> As usual, those are actually just thoughts. >> Anyone may (should ?) improve the wiki page (keeping a readable >> structure) sharing his own knowledge and thoughts :-) >> >> Any debate for any (relevant) subject can start here. >> >> I think that PHP5.6 final release is a good starting point for first >> milestones and first ideas throught code. >> >> https://wiki.php.net/ideas/php6/engine > > Note also that Unicode is not > even mentioned. Unicode has its own page and section, that's why. > The main failure of the previous PHP6 attempt wasn't actually the choice > of UTF-16 as some people like to claim, Right, but the main failure in Unicode support was UTF-16 (to clarify :). However you are right. I have the feeling that this list is very optimistic, but a couple of things should be considered (jit f.e. and APIs cleanup for example). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org