> -----Original Message----- > From: Stas Malyshev [mailto:smalys...@sugarcrm.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 4:41 PM > To: PHP Internals > Subject: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 again > > Hi! > > I has been almost a month since we did our routine talk about 5.4, so here it > goes again. The patch for the scalar hints seems to be pretty simple (see > http://random-bits-of.info/no_scalar_hints.diff - no generated files included, > that will be done on actual commit), so it should not hold us too much. > I propose putting current code in a branch and continue without scalar typing > for 5.4 - any objections to that? > -snip- > I think we need to start moving. Not much is happening in 5.4 now as far as I > can see, and we have a good feature set that is long due to be released. > For proposing stuff for 5.4, please do it here: > https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54 and also on the list if it wasn't discussed > and > you think it requires discussion. As I've already pointed out, I am all in favor of starting to run the release process. I do think we should focus on getting out there what we have now (with some tweaks) and not trying to do major new features or we will by definition not be entering a release process. The richer our language (and the more mature and broad our base) the more we have to be concerned with feature creep. - On performance & memory consumption - as already mentioned, huge improvements! We may be able to do more but will stay within the release timeline if we make any further improvements. - On square bracket shortcut I was always in favor of (b) in http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=119999385524494&w=2. If this is what we're talking about I personally feel it's an easy one. - Agree type hints goes out. Go!! Andi
