On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Julien Pauli <jpa...@php.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com> wrote: > > > >> PHP-5.6 is frozen for new features for a long time. > >> Adding new features after RC is not a good idea. > >> And we will need some kind of RFC and voting. > >> > > > > I agree here. > > > > Bob, if you've been late proposing an RFC and couldn't get it up in time, > > I'm sorry about it. > > Please, understand we are very close to a release, and ATM, we're still > > talking about weither this *user land* feature or that *user land* > feature > > will > > be available, makes sense, or not. (that's a technical feature, but it > > involves user land here). > > That can't be ! > > > > We absolutely need something we, maintainers - creators - authors , think > > is *stable*. > > The PHP project needs that, we all agree. > > > > If the static array feature can't be added to the AST safely, please, > > remove it. > > > > You've already added so much new great code (AST for this example) to > 5.6, > > I personnally thank you about this, however now it is really time to make > > it stable, and commit its new features you may think about into 5.7 (or > > what will be 5.7, ATM : master) , and write new RFCs about those if > needed. > > > > Knowing your actual work in addition of that, is deep into the engine and > > has inpact on OPCache, that dmitry and other contributors work hard on to > > improve/fix every day, is another point that should let us think about a > > minute : we just can't afford that. > > > > 5.6 is late, for many reasons. We need to release it ASAP, but not with > > code we don't fully trust. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Julien.Pauli > > > > Could somebody please clarify what issues are still open here? From what I > understand, both the opcache issue and the recursion issue are fixed now. > What's the discussion about? > > One point I'd like to be considered is the ability to dereference arrays in > constant scalar expressions. Currently this syntax allows things like > Foo[0], which are not allowed by normal PHP expressions. I would suggest > either removing the ability to dereference altogether or at least make sure > that it matches normal PHP expressions. > > Nikita > my guess is that Julien also missed the fixes from Dmitry. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
