Re: "Mission Statement"

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I'd say that it exists to develop the language specification for PHP > period. I don't see how portability or vendor independence have anything > to do with it... Here is a short explanation for both terms, in the context of last week's netmask thread (on zend-cvs). Portability: The ``hack'' relies on the host platform's long being 32-bit which makes it non-portable. This particular feature and similar ones should not be part of the specification. Vendor-independence: I'm certain there are other tricks which are simple side-effects of the current implementation. While those terms might appear to be obvious, I'm certain that it helps to focus the work's group and to give observers a better understanding of our target. - Sascha