No. C++ is horrible. Very good read: http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/the_unreasonable_effectiveness_of_c.html On Jan 11, 2013 5:06 AM, "Clint Priest" <cpri...@zerocue.com> wrote:
> Oooh, a rewrite? Can we write it in an object oriented language this > time? Please? Pretty Please??? > > :D > > On 1/10/2013 9:49 PM, guilhermebla...@gmail.com wrote: > > Stas, > > I totally agree and Pierrick and I faced all these problems during the > creation of patch. > If PHP doesn't all have support required for a given feature, let's just > not only discuss feature, but also the required support too. Named > parameters is a great example. I'd also name another one, > ReflectionNamespace; namespaces are converted to strings and attached to > their classes during compile time and you can never reflect over them to > grab for example their names. > I even mentioned to Andi back in 2010 that ZE gets re-written every 5 > years. That happened in 2000, 2005 and we're now hitting walls because of > "monster" changes required to implement feature A or B. Maybe it's time to > consider a rewrite again? > > Cheers, > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> > <smalys...@sugarcrm.com>wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I strongly suggest to anyone following the (too many) threads about > annotations to try the C# annotation and see what it allows. It goes > > > As far as I can see, C# annotations rely on two very important things: > 1. Compiler support. Compiler really knows a lot about what annotations do. > 2. Extensive library support. Annotations themselves are just passive > metadata, what makes them work is .net framework that uses them. > > This means to make annotations as useful in PHP we would have to have > substantial support in the engine (including bytecode caching > provisions, etc.) and some libraries that require very > latest-and-greatest version of PHP. > > Another thing is that we're not having some features that are used > extensively in C# annotations, main being named parameters support. > > I am saying this not to oppose the idea of annotations or the idea of > looking into C# and other languages (actually, I think anybody who talks > about it should look at least into what C# and Java do with it - and > also what Python does, which is completely different direction, just to > know other options). I'm just saying porting this to PHP may be less > than straightforward. > > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > -Clint >
