Hi!
First: My patch is quite non-intrusive, it only adds things in a few places (new opcode, a few checks). If you only look at the non-generated
I think it falls into "famous last words" category. While I did not have time yet to look into the patch in the detail, I have hard time to believe patch creating wholly new concept in PHP, new opcodes, etc. would have zero impact. You have to consider at least the following: tests, documentation, how lexical interacts with other references (global? static? just variable passed by-ref?), how closure interacts with various reflection capabilities, how it works with bytecode caches, what happens with lifetimes of the variables saved in closures - especially implicit ones like $this, etc., etc. I know these questions can be answered, and maybe even easily answered, but I think they have to be answered without pressure of 5.3 release and commitment to the fixed API hanging over us.
I understand your urge to have it inside ASAP - if you didn't want it, you'd not gone through this effort to create it :) However, I still think we better not make 5.3 dependent on yet another new feature. As for adoption - I think it would take a long time for off-the-shelf libraries and mainstream users to use this anyway, and for the hackers among us it will be available in development version pretty soon after 5.3. I think if we would decide that every new feature anybody can think about should enter into 5.3 because it will be harder to adopt it otherwise, we'd never release 5.3 at all - look at the RFCs, we have a bunch of ideas already, and I'm sure there will be more. We need to release some time - what happened to that "release often" thing?
Please do not consider this to be opinion about (or against) the patch - I think the idea is good and from preliminary glance the implementation is very nice too, but IMHO we just can not have everything in one release.
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