Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Lukas Smith
Rowan Lewis wrote: Well, that just sucks. I can only dream... Ian: How was this mail more useful/polite/pointful than Andrei's reply? Now remember that PHP developers get stuff like this all the time, yet users most of the time just come here to complain now and then. Its like working at Wal

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Ian P. Christian
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 02:45, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > Would my response have been better if it had had a smiley attached? Whilst RFC 1855 does say 'Don't assume that the inclusion of a smiley will make the recipient happy with what you say or wipe out an otherwise insulting comment.', I wo

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Andrei Zmievski
Rowan, This book should be a good start: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558604421/ HTH, -Andrei On Nov 21, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Rowan Lewis wrote: Andrei, I would if I could! Unfortunately, I wouldn't know where to begin, having never coded anything that complicated before. I've actu

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Andrei Zmievski
Would my response have been better if it had had a smiley attached? I've been on both sides of this: as a language user, back in 1998, and as the developer since then. A lot of times it feels that the users take a lot for granted and expect the developers to produce a positive response to t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Rowan Lewis
Andrei, I would if I could! Unfortunately, I wouldn't know where to begin, having never coded anything that complicated before. I've actually written a huge amount of specs for a language, but as I can't code it, there is little hope. All I can do is annoy you guys ;) On 11/22/05, Andrei Zmiev

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Ian P. Christian
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 00:20, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > Maybe you should start a new language. With sensible function names,   > and anything else that you may desire. I hear it's a good exercise. Accepting the risk of starting a flame war where 101 PHP developers start to hate me, I feel I s

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Andrei Zmievski
Maybe you should start a new language. With sensible function names, and anything else that you may desire. I hear it's a good exercise. -Andrei On Nov 21, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Rowan Lewis wrote: Well, that just sucks. I can only dream... On 11/22/05, Ilia Alshanetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Rowan Lewis
Well, that just sucks. I can only dream... On 11/22/05, Ilia Alshanetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rowan Lewis wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but will there be any > > name changes with functions? > > > > I know it would break everything, but it would also help PHP. >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Rowan Lewis wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but will there be any > name changes with functions? > > I know it would break everything, but it would also help PHP. > > file_get_contetns VS. FileGetContents... Not going to happen, existing function names will remain as they

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6

2005-11-21 Thread Rowan Lewis
I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but will there be any name changes with functions? I know it would break everything, but it would also help PHP. file_get_contetns VS. FileGetContents... On 11/22/05, Rowan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the best place to

[PHP-DEV] Session Extension Strict Mode Patch

2005-11-21 Thread Stefan Esser
Hello again, some of you may remember the discussions about our session extension using a permissive mode for session id, which means that PHP accepts all session IDs from the outside and not only those created by itself. While I have repeatedly stated, that the strict_mode provides only little a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrade notes for PHP 5.1 - final draft

2005-11-21 Thread Jochem Maas
I suggest a little more damage control is needed... Steph Fox wrote: Guys and guyess, ... 4. instanceof, is_a(), is_subclass_of(), catch == In PHP 5.0, is_a() was deprecated and replaced by the "instanceof" operator. There were some issues with t

[PHP-DEV] Discussion of LDAP API extensions

2005-11-21 Thread Pierangelo Masarati
Hi all. Following the lines of my initial posting "LDAP controls in response" , I got to the point I implemented specific API calls for known controls encoding, and generic and well-known controls decoding from operation results. I also implemented extende

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5 Bug Summary Report

2005-11-21 Thread internals
PHP 5 Bug Database summary - http://bugs.php.net Num Status Summary (382 total including feature requests) ===[*General Issues]== 25665 Assigned var_dump/print_r hang on NaN and INF 26771 Suspended register_tick_funtions crash under

[PHP-DEV] PHP 4 Bug Summary Report

2005-11-21 Thread internals
PHP 4 Bug Database summary - http://bugs.php.net Num Status Summary (634 total including feature requests) ===[Apache2 related]== 35199 Feedback .htaccess "Action" no longer executes PHP page ==