Hi,
Finally catching up with all the million comments. Definitely a way to get
distracted from real work :)
I don't want to get distracted from what I consider should be the main
objective and bigger issues than yes to one or another feature.
We should get PDO, new execution engine and some other changes out to the
public.
We need to fold in the Unicode changes into public CVS before we have a
maintenance nightmare. We can't manage more than two PHP 5 branches at
once. It'll be unmaintainable and tough.
I'll roll PHP 5.1 Beta 1 tomorrow. Hopefully we will then start getting
some very much needed feedback from the public for HEAD.
After talking to Andrei & Rasmus, I think it becomes clear that we should
aim to RC 5.1 in the beginning of July so that we can close the 5.0.x
branch and merge Unicode into HEAD. There will hopefully then be a quick
development cycle for upgrading a lot of functions for Unicode support, and
in addition we could address some features like goto, and other
improvements which are required. Releasing 5.1 doesn't mean 5.5 or 6.0
(whatever we call the Unicode version) couldn't be released this year.
I'm sure Andrei would love that :) (so would I, and incidentally my
original name is Andrei too).
It's for the benefit of all to make progress and not slow the release cycle
to a halt, especially for people who are looking forward to the "major"
features. We have some great stuff coming and it'll go bad if we don't move
the major pieces along.
Andi
P.S. - Anyway, from looking over the thread it definitely seems like 100
people have had 101 different ideas for ifsetor(). Just strengthens my
point of doing it yourself in code.
As far as goto is concerned, I pointed out some technical issues (Stas
mentioned some) as far as the implementation is concerned back when Sara
did her patch. I don't object to having a strict, static implementation of
goto when we get a clean implementation. Actually I might even take it upon
myself to look for a solution. It should go into the Unicode version. It's
not high priority and I'm sure PHP users around the globe will survive
without it for a while.
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