I would definitely vote "No" on object oriented. I'd vote for C++ but SOLELY because templates. I'd stay away from classes as they generally hurt performance.
Sorry for the off-topic comment :) On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:06 PM, 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>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 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
