On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Rasmus <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote: > Because most of those can't be done without breaking millions of lines > of code out there. And a couple of people worked on Unicode for years > and got very little support. That is not a small project. This short > syntax for arrays is probably the most requested PHP feature right now > and we have a working patch that doesn't break any existing code so the > effort involved is minimal. If you have a working patch that solves the > Unicode issues, by all means, show us.
I agree, it would be a break a lot of code. But I'd rather see some fundamental changes at that level (call it PHP 6, make it not BC with PHP 5.x or earlier), and remove the cruft and standardize on some of the slop. Shorter array syntax seems like an unnecessary addon, will create more code confusion (now people have to think of two different ways something is represented), books will become dated overnight (even moreso than they are now) I would help with the Unicode project if I could. I am not sure why it was so tough, but I imagine people infinitely smarter than I am were working on it. I saw some automated Unicode testing thing that was running on a php.net server once and it looked like there was over 70% coverage at that point. I don't see why it's so hard for PHP to get it going with all the third party libraries out there which could support it (and why other languages developed in C or C++ can support it as well) I don't mean to get off-topic. PHP is my bread and butter, I have immense respect for you. It just feels like there's things requested of the language now that are trying to morph the language into something else. I see blog posts about "10 things PHP needs to have to be more like Java" - if you want Java, use Java. Stop trying to extend PHP to do everything for you. It services the majority of websites on the net and it has done that for years without that crap - and there is a reason for that. Making JSON style arrays seems stupid to me. When I look at a PHP script I expect PHP syntax. Not stolen pieces from a bunch of other languages (yes, some of it is that way already, but let's not keep the trend going please?) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
