On 7 June 2017 14:32:50 BST, Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com> wrote: >The RFC process is the way that we change the rules, and RFCs are not >constrained by any previous RFC or by any 'constitution' as PHP >doesn't have one. This is similar to how the UK parliament isn't >constrained by any previous decision or constitution, which is >different from most other countries, where the power of the government >is limited by constitution.
Even without a written constitution, you can't simply pass something that *incidentally* changes a pre-established rule, you have to explicitly make an exception or a new rule. To take the analogy of English Law, if two Acts conflicted without mentioning each other, I don't think it would be a foregone conclusion that the newer law should be followed. What's more, there are laws that explicitly constrain the process of passing other laws - the Parliament Acts, for instance, or the Human Rights Act. If you can simply say "this conflicts with our agreed procedures, but it's newer, so the procedures are automatically wrong" then you might as well not have any procedures. Saying "this is an acceptable exception to normal procedures because..." seems a reasonable minimum requirement. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
