Re: "Mission Statement"

At 02:04 21/11/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:

    Would you want to standardize a feature which works on
    Linux/ia32, but not on Linux/Alpha?

    That is reality, as far as I am concerned, and something
    which we should not simply put aside.

You have a point there, but since we're not planning to become Java anywhere in the near future, I think we need to find something in the middle. I think that documenting platform specific behavior, clearly denoting it as such, is acceptable.

    Well, we will have to evaluate the impact of a particular
    feature and come to a decision on whether it is a valid
    behaviour which we want to continue or a mere side-effect.
    Most things in PHP are well understood, but there are some
    areas (like reference passing) which are neither well-
    understood (by the users) nor well-defined.

OK (reference passing is well defined, BTW, but undoubtfully, not well understood :) Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/