Re: PHP Language Specification

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > 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. > +1 > > > 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. > +1 > > 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. > +1 > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >