Hi!
THAT I agree with - BUT WHAT IS STOPPING PHP6 being the solution. I can't see any reason that time is being wasted on yet another PHP5.X when that same effort could be directed to getting at least a stable beta of PHP6 out the door?
I'm sorry you don't see the reason, but we do. The reason being, as I said, that it is needed by people in 5.x timeframe, not 6.x timeframe.
MessageFormatter simply duplicates and complicates a simple display of a message with embedded variables. If I ask for to output a string with
No it doesn't. It supports ICU functionality in with message formatting (BTW backed by a number of ICU tools).
Collator is already required to process strtoupper and strtolower, so why should we need to decide if we can use them or we need to create a new object and get that to do the job.
For PHP 6 Collator will be integrated with the rest of core functionality. And BTW, you don't need collator for strtoupper, you need it for sort. Collation and case conversion/folding is not the same.
PLEASE - what is stopping PHP6 becoming a platform that we can start working with today?
There's a lot of work still for integrating intl extension with PHP 6 (and PHP 5 too), please tell me when you are ready to start and I'll describe the tasks for you.
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