Re: PHP Language Specification

Hi! > To that end, we (as in Facebook), have been putting together a formal > language spec for PHP (using PHP 5.6 as the source of truth) along > with an additional conformance test suite (which compliments > Zend/tests). We've talked to some engine folks along the way to get > feedback and make version 1 as good as it can be, and we're really > close to releasing it (aiming for next week). Note that this document > only covers the language syntax and not the standard runtime library. Thank you Sara and Facebook team for doing something we've been talking about for more than a decade and before that nobody actually attempting to do. I think it is a great development and I hope to see the first version soon. > This document is meant for PHP, and PHP should be the steward of it > going forward, so we (as in PHP) should start looking at good ways to > keep it up to date and revise it over time. As a sneak-peak, uploaded > a very small section so that you get an idea for what the > document looks like overall. I would propose choosing some collaborative platform for managing it, something like Google Docs (suggestions about best platform ever for that are welcome :) so that people could comment on specific parts and keep track of what is the current state and what has been discussed. Alternatively, we could do a wiki maybe but the problem there is that it is hard to export (unless anybody knows wiki setups that can be easily exported into single document). I'd also advocate creating a workgroup and a mailing list for it to discuss the spec and to work on it and other things like ones above there. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/