Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote: Anonymous Classes

2013-10-09 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Joe Watkins wrote: > On 10/07/2013 11:20 AM, Peter Cowburn wrote: > >> On 7 October 2013 11:13, Joe Watkins wrote: >> >>> >>> Morning Chaps, >>> >>> On the advice of many, I have restarted the vote, sorry for the >>> inconvenience/confusion ... >>> >> >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote: Anonymous Classes

2013-10-09 Thread Paul Dragoonis
Hi Joe, Thanks for your hard work on anonymous classes. I voted no because I feel it's just adding more and more ways to achieve similar results and the syntax is just more sugary fluff to allow people to do things the wrong way. We've had a lot of new features in recent versions, i.e: traits, s

Re: [PHP-DEV] NEWS handling

2013-10-09 Thread Adam Harvey
On 8 October 2013 06:46, Michael Wallner wrote: > I was wondering how we are supposed to handle NEWS entries when a fix > goes into both branches, PHP-5.4 and 5.5. IIRC we used to add the BFN > only to the lowest numbered branch, but then again that was at times > we had mostly onle one stable rel

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote: Anonymous Classes

2013-10-09 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
> I have voted no based on the lack of support for >> serialization/unserialization, and I think that we agreed that without >> somehow naming the class, we can't support that, and having a name would >> defeat the purpose of this feature. >> >> I'm looking forward to nested classes though. >> >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] NEWS handling

2013-10-09 Thread Pierre Joye
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Adam Harvey wrote: > On 8 October 2013 06:46, Michael Wallner wrote: >> I was wondering how we are supposed to handle NEWS entries when a fix >> goes into both branches, PHP-5.4 and 5.5. IIRC we used to add the BFN >> only to the lowest numbered branch, but then ag

Re: [PHP-DEV] NEWS handling

2013-10-09 Thread Michael Wallner
> Thanks for your feedback! I fixed NEWS for the upcoming releases. > Please let us have an eye on it in the future! Okay -- looking at NEWS.GIT-RULES it actually says the opposite: 2. All news updates intended for public viewing, such as new features, bug fixes, improvements, etc., should

Re: [PHP-DEV] Automatic Property Initialization

2013-10-09 Thread David Muir
On 09/10/13 07:39, Nikita Popov wrote: On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gordon Oheim wrote: Since the feedback so far was few but positive, I'll advance the RFC to the next stage. Apart from this, any feedback is still welcome. Thanks and Regards, Gordon For the lazy folks, this is the RFC

Re: [PHP-DEV] Automatic Property Initialization

2013-10-09 Thread Nikita Popov
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gordon Oheim wrote: > Since the feedback so far was few but positive, I'll advance the RFC to > the next stage. Apart from this, any feedback is still welcome. > > Thanks and Regards, Gordon > For the lazy folks, this is the RFC Gordon is talking about: https://w

Re: [PHP-DEV] Automatic Property Initialization

2013-10-09 Thread Levi Morrison
I quite like the shortened constructors. You did a good job of explaining how it it would work in a variety of situations and I have no questions on the behavior of the basic proposal. I don't like the Alternate Syntax: the difference between the current behavior and the proposed is triggered only

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Merge branch 'issue-55736' of https://github.com/tistre/php-src: run-tests.php

2013-10-09 Thread Michael Wallner
On 9 October 2013 10:06, Michael Wallner wrote: > Commit:5f41cb18beb9437df73c382b5a9689d43c357628 > Author:Michael Wallner Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:06:45 > +0200 > Parents: 29d5ff75d5ac076eb0b4623e1a29eb33bb65393a > 5ffaf95d3f6d8634cdc218ea6bfdb24c7887148c > Branches: master > > Li