On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > No syntax changes, so regular majority as far as I can tell. > > Sent from my mobile >
It's not a syntax change, but it is a very, very large engine change. Yes, it does not touch the Zend engine itself, but it adds a large amount of new code that is close to the engine. People doing engine changes will need to modify it too (thus it is quasi part of the engine, even if it lives in a separate directory). All existing core devs will have to study and understand the code. All new developers have an additional piece of very complex code to study before they can start making core changes. So no, this is not a syntax change, but it is a engine change with a by *far* larger impact than any of the other things that have been introduced in PHP 5.5 (like generators or finally). That's why I asked about the type of vote. I'm never quite sure which kind of vote something requires (maybe we could clarify that paragraph in the voting RFC a bit?) Thanks, Nikita
