On 2012-04-13, David Muir <davidkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/04/12 14:55, Stas Malyshev wrote: > > > If this is a pecl module library developers cannot use it and trust > > > that on php 5.n, it just works. That would fork the language in an > > > undesirable way. It should be a core feature, no ini flag, no > > > sometimes-there module. > > PHP 5.n is at least a year away, wide adoption of it - more like 5 years > > away. So if you want to write code that would run anywhere (as opposed > > on systems you control) you'd have to wait minimum 5 years. Wouldn't it > > better to have it earlier? > > OTOH, requiring extensions is a common thing for applications, and any > > pecl extension is one command away for most setups, or one download away > > for others. And can be made work even in 5.2 if desired. > > Can't it also be handled using streams to inject a leading <?php to the > file prior to inclusion? A PECL extension would then just make it run a > bit faster.
I made this very suggestion earlier this week (we do this in ZF1 to emulate short tag support for those who use them). -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matt...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
