Re: Re: String extension proposal

Hi Jake, The thought had occured to me and I may end up doing so at some point. However I have been using PHP professionally for several years and I like the syntax, I also like some of the newer frameworks like CakePHP and Zend. I also like the (Java inspired) enhancements added in PHP5. My intention was not to insult anyone and if I hadn't liked PHP to begin with I wouldn't be using it. I am a serious developer and I merely want a more reasonable answer to what I felt was a decent and honest proposal that was dealt with in a pretty flippant way. I feel the logic here is inconsistent, on the one hand MySQLi deserves to exist alongside the procedural mysql_ functions, and presumably there are no objections to OO interfaces to extensions that are wrappers for external libraries, but anything close to the core is out of the question. I can understand that people want to protect the core of a very decent language from unnecessary overhead but perhaps there is room discussion or for an extension for people who want to use it. Regards, Mark