Re: Specification live on git.php.net

Am 30.7.2014 um 19:00 schrieb Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>: > http://hhvm.com/blog/5723 > > The wait is over! We’ve just pushed v1 of the PHP language spec to > the repo. The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s in Markdown. > Yeah, I know there was a slight lean towards ReStructuredText in my > little informal poll, but the guy working on massaging the spec out of > MSWord format (JoelM) had enough to deal with that I didn’t want to > sideline him too far with bike shedding over document format. I > suspect one of the first decisions we’ll make as a group is to pandoc > it into something else, and that’s fine. The important thing is to > have this starting point. Thank you for pushing this. I think markdown is totally fine here. At least it's intuitively editable, that's good. > There are some known issues, which Joel is going to categorize onto > bugs.php.net including the fact that PHP currently fails one of the > conformance tests because ($a)[0] is a parse error. Speaking of > conformance tests, they need some love too. They’re monolithic and > scattered with commented out lines of code. Some nice low-hanging > fruit for anyone wanting to get involved would be to split them up a > bit and clean them to match PHP Coding Conventions. Just one note about ($a)[0], it's fixed via the uniformVariableSyntax RFC, which comes with PHP 6. So no need to file a bug here. It'd be good if the implemented PHP 6 RFC also could come into this spec? Bob > A final reminder, this is an initial draft, and not a completed > documented. As my employer says, "This journey is 1% finished." > Let’s make it awesome. > > -Sara > > -- > PHP Naming Standardization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php