Re: PHP Language Specification
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:32:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Language Specification | ||
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> Good luck documenting PHP’s inconsistent semantics, though.
> It’ll either be endlessly detailed, or not matching PHP 5.6.
> To be honest, I think we should probably clean up PHP’s
> semantics so they can be more clearly specified.
>
200 pages in the draft I have atm...
As you suppose, some of that bulk is down to the kinds of things that
the Unified Variable Syntax RFC is trying to resolve. On the plus
side, the guy who's been writing the spec is insanely detail oriented
(and has experience writing language specs), so all those inconsistent
semantics are represented. :)