Re: PHP Specification

On 24 Mar 2014, at 19:38, Florian Anderiasch <ml@anderiasch.de> wrote: > Another point is that PHP is evolving faster than ever in the past, > release cycles are actually quite short - how can you "freeze" stuff and > even begin to commit to a timeframe of even a few months to write down > this spec. Then who decides what is working as intended and what is a bug? > > So yes, I don't think there'd be a lot of objection if someone magically > delivered parts of a language spec that is accurate to the current > release (let's say 5.6 for now) - but who will do it? PHP's design has > always been "fix your own itch, commit it, and as long as it doesn't > interfer too much, it's good” PHP 6 is a good opportunity. We’ll have more than the usual year to work on it. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/