Re: PHP Language Specification
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:03:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Language Specification | ||
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On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:00, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> I think that the language spec initiative is a great initiative, but let's
> not get carried away and start turning things upside down. This would be
> the 'PHP language specification', not 'PHP'. PHP would ideally adhere to
> it. Other implementation (such as hhvm) would probably adhere to them as
> well - but they would still not be named 'PHP', but rather,
> implementations of the PHP language or the PHP language spec. This is
> consistent with mostly all of the other open source scripting languages
> out there.
This is unhelpful, however, as it leaves PHP being ambiguous as to whether it means the
implementation or the spec.
You know, the git repository is called php-src. Why don’t we call the implementation php-src?
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Andrea Faulds
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