Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Felipe Pena wrote: > 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch > > > On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: > > > WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? > > > > > > This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they > > > come across it. Can we please change th

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 alpha

2010-11-01 Thread Clint Byrum
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 15:32 -0700, Derick Rethans wrote: > Hi, > > we're a bit further along now; and with the typehinting resolved > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/62298/focus=62858) I want > to start started with PHP 5.4 with the first alpha on Wednesday, > November 24th. There

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On 11/1/10 1:47 PM, Felipe Pena wrote: > > 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch > > > >> On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: > >>> WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? > >>> > >>> This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when th

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Adding APC

2010-11-01 Thread Patrick ALLAERT
2010/11/2 Derick Rethans : > On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Derick Rethans wrote: > >> I understand that the general idea is to bundle APC with a future >> version of PHP. Right now, APC doesn't really compile for trunk because >> of internal changes. However, for PHP 5.3 it's getting into a pretty >> good sh

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Annotations

2010-11-01 Thread guilhermebla...@gmail.com
Hi Derick, I'm all for it. Although I have karma, I'm not an active PHP core contributor, but I would like to participate of such discussion, mainly because I have plenty experience with Annotations from another languages. I'll spend some time re-reading the entire Annotations thread and come up

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 alpha

2010-11-01 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/62298/focus=62858) I want to start started with PHP 5.4 with the first alpha on Wednesday, November 24th. There are a few things that need sorting I just wanted to remind we have ZendCon this week, which means some people who might have someth

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Delegate type hint/checks to alternative locations (Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha)

2010-11-01 Thread Felipe Pena
Hi, 2010/10/19 Derick Rethans > Hi! > > On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Derick Rethans wrote: > > > I've spend some more time on this, and have attached a new patch that: > > > > - Removes the strict type verification, changing it back into typehints > > only. > > - Keeps the current syntax so that typehi

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Adding APC

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Derick Rethans wrote: > I understand that the general idea is to bundle APC with a future > version of PHP. Right now, APC doesn't really compile for trunk because > of internal changes. However, for PHP 5.3 it's getting into a pretty > good shape. In order to add APC, what

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Rewriting of the parser into Lemon

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Nov 01 15:33:59, Derick Rethans wrote: > Hi! > > Work has been done on rewriting the PHP parser to Lemon in a specific > branch: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/LEMON/ > > Right now, the Lemon parser is not actually faster than the current > bison parser, so I would suggest no

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Adding APC

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi! I understand that the general idea is to bundle APC with a future version of PHP. Right now, APC doesn't really compile for trunk because of internal changes. However, for PHP 5.3 it's getting into a pretty good shape. In order to add APC, what does still need to be done? cheers, Derick -

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Rewriting of the parser into Lemon

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi! Work has been done on rewriting the PHP parser to Lemon in a specific branch: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/LEMON/ Right now, the Lemon parser is not actually faster than the current bison parser, so I would suggest not to put this in PHP 5.4 until it performs at least as

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4: Annotations

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi! The RFC on annotations for PHP http://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations suggests to add new syntax to the language to provide meta data for use in reflection. This sort of meta data is usually provided in the form of docblocks, which this RFC does *not* state isn't good enough. The discussion o

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 alpha

2010-11-01 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi, we're a bit further along now; and with the typehinting resolved (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/62298/focus=62858) I want to start started with PHP 5.4 with the first alpha on Wednesday, November 24th. There are a few things that need sorting out and/or clarification: - Ann

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 11/1/10 1:47 PM, Felipe Pena wrote: > 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch > >> On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: >>> WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? >>> >>> This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they >>> come across it. Can we please change the token name to T_DOUB

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Felipe Pena
2010/11/1 Richard Lynch > On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: > > WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? > > > > This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they > > come across it. Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON > > so I don't have to hear about i

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, October 29, 2010 7:47 pm, admin wrote: > WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? > > This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they > come across it. Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON > so I don't have to hear about it constantly? > > Those that disagree

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bug #47643 - array_diff slowdown

2010-11-01 Thread Felipe Pena
Hi, 2010/11/1 Lonny K > Can we get some opinions on this. I'm willing to make the changes, but I > want to get some sort of consensus on this. > > Basically I believe the problem is that patch 42838 should be reverted and > the documentation should be updated. Someone on IRC had disagreed with

[PHP-DEV] Re: Bug #47643 - array_diff slowdown

2010-11-01 Thread Lonny K
Can we get some opinions on this. I'm willing to make the changes, but I want to get some sort of consensus on this. Basically I believe the problem is that patch 42838 should be reverted and the documentation should be updated. Someone on IRC had disagreed with me so I want more opinions before

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Makes sense, just alias it and change the error message thus keeping bc. Please just move on. Everything possible has been said already. If we feel like there are critical issues introduced by this error message, then we may fix it, at some

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Nathan Rixham
Stan Vass wrote: It's amazing to me this has become such a long discussion. The facts are simple: 1) People don't ask for the other parse errors even half as often as they as for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM 2) They do so because it looks like gibberish to them, so it looks unlikely to be a common

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Nov 01 13:43:14, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: > > > It's the policy: > > > > There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to > > > > the amount of PHP work that came out of Israel, and it is a good > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Alexander Schrijver < alexander.schrij...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: > > > It's the policy: > > > > There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to > > > > the amount of PHP work that cam

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:23 PM, James Butler < james.but...@edigitalresearch.com> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Schrijver [mailto:alexander.schrij...@gmail.com] > Sent: 01 November 2010 12:19 > To: Stefan Marr > Cc: Dennis Haarbrink; Stan Vass; internals@lists.php.net >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: > > It's the policy: > > > There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to > > > the amount of PHP work that came out of Israel, and it is a good > > > > > > re

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Nov 01 13:30:58, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > Oops, should've sent this to the list too. > > - Forwarded message from Alexander Schrijver > - > > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:28:59 +0100 > From: Alexander Schrijver > To: James Butler > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] r

[PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
Oops, should've sent this to the list too. - Forwarded message from Alexander Schrijver - Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:28:59 +0100 From: Alexander Schrijver To: James Butler Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON User-Agent: Mutt/

RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread James Butler
-Original Message- From: Alexander Schrijver [mailto:alexander.schrij...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 November 2010 12:19 To: Stefan Marr Cc: Dennis Haarbrink; Stan Vass; internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON On M

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:59:54PM +0100, Stefan Marr wrote: > > On 01 Nov 2010, at 12:06, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > > Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes, by not changing > > this you'r annoying thousands of people. > Instead of going for this cosmetic nonsense you shou

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread James Butler
+1 This solves lots of other problems we have and will have in the future. -- James Butler Sent from my iPhone On 1 Nov 2010, at 12:00, "Stefan Marr" wrote: > > On 01 Nov 2010, at 12:06, Alexander Schrijver wrote: >> Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes, by not changin

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Stefan Marr
On 01 Nov 2010, at 12:06, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes, by not changing > this you'r annoying thousands of people. Instead of going for this cosmetic nonsense you should help those people on the lemon branch. I am insulted every time I h

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Dennis Haarbrink wrote: > Come on people, what exactly is the problem with a once-in-a-lifetime > investment of 5 seconds of your time to google some stupid error message. > Something you, as a developer, spend your life doing. > > Please, stop complaini

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Quadling
On 30 October 2010 01:47, admin wrote: > WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? > > This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they come > across it.  Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON so I don't > have to hear about it constantly? > > Those that disagree don't d

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Arvids Godjuks
Agreed, and really - my experience is that googling non-standard error message usually give instant result. Googling for a common error message could become a big time investment pointing to different software even if you point to search engine for what software to look. 2010/11/1 Dennis Haarbrink

[PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Haarbrink
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Stan Vass [mailto:sv_for...@fmethod.com] > Verzonden: maandag 1 november 2010 10:19 > Aan: internals@lists.php.net > Onderwerp: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to > T_DOUBLE_COLON > Urgentie: Laag > > It's amazing to me this has become

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Stan Vass
It's amazing to me this has become such a long discussion. The facts are simple: 1) People don't ask for the other parse errors even half as often as they as for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM 2) They do so because it looks like gibberish to them, so it looks unlikely to be a common thing you can Goog