Re: PHP Specification

Hi Johannes, On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 10:55 +0100, Pierre Joye wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Johannes Schlüter >> <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: >> >> > In my opinion it is a good thing that PHP is powerful enough to enable >> > frameworks etc. to innovate around the core language. The core language >> > has to be a reliable and stable. >> >> Agreed, but I was not clear. I refer to core features like what we can >> find in hhvm, hack, more recently the JVM compiler or similar >> projects. Many features which have nothing to do with the engine they >> use should have been available in the core since long. > > If anybody (being a contributor to a clone or some "user") sees anything > in any implementation that they want to be part of PHP they can under > the RFC process. > > If anybody thinks there is need for a specification they can start > writing it and look for help and review. > > Statements that something "should" be done by "somebody" won't work in > a > volunteer project. > > With that this discussion is finished for me. If anybody wants to > reiterate this we can do this off list, not taking time from others with > a meta discussion giving no results. Good so as it makes no sense to get into a rhetorical battle, none of us needs it and I think you pretty much understood what I meant by "should be done" or about the lack of participation of older developers in discussions, but blocking things at the voting phase. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org