Sara, I can't even begin to thank you and your team enough for this. This is incredibly huge.
You're right, a spec has become even more important with new engines and implementations like PHPNG and HHVM in the works. I wondered if this were to ever happen. It never seemed like anyone in the PHP community wanted to spearhead this kind of work (for good reason, its difficult and a huge task to undertake). Thank you so much! Again, this is huge! - Trevor On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: > Just announced something at OSCON that's probably going to get a lot > of folks talking and making assumptions, so before things get out of > hand, I want to provide some context. > > We (As in PHP) have been talking about making a spec for the PHP > language for a LONG time. With PHPNG around the corner, the need for > a formal spec is even more important so that we can reliably ensure > that PHP.Next matches PHP 5.6's behavior as much as possible. > Meanwhile, other implementations of PHP (like HHVM) should be as spec > compliant as possible so that we don't see the language bifurcate. > > To that end, we (as in Facebook), have been putting together a formal > language spec for PHP (using PHP 5.6 as the source of truth) along > with an additional conformance test suite (which compliments > Zend/tests). We've talked to some engine folks along the way to get > feedback and make version 1 as good as it can be, and we're really > close to releasing it (aiming for next week). Note that this document > only covers the language syntax and not the standard runtime library. > > This document is meant for PHP, and PHP should be the steward of it > going forward, so we (as in PHP) should start looking at good ways to > keep it up to date and revise it over time. As a sneak-peak, uploaded > a very small section so that you get an idea for what the > document looks like overall. > > http://dl.hhvm.com/resources/PHPSpec-SneakPeak.pdf > > Tons of love, > -Sara > > P.S. - Apologies if you got this twice. But the version I sent with an > attachment looks like it got stripped by the list server. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
