On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:00, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > I think that the language spec initiative is a great initiative, but let's > not get carried away and start turning things upside down. This would be > the 'PHP language specification', not 'PHP'. PHP would ideally adhere to > it. Other implementation (such as hhvm) would probably adhere to them as > well - but they would still not be named 'PHP', but rather, > implementations of the PHP language or the PHP language spec. This is > consistent with mostly all of the other open source scripting languages > out there.
This is unhelpful, however, as it leaves PHP being ambiguous as to whether it means the implementation or the spec. You know, the git repository is called php-src. Why don’t we call the implementation php-src? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
