Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Yes, but it is already possible to call an object's method in array key > context, so in combination with an appropriate interface the same can be > accomplished. No, it's not possible. It is possible to call object method in an expression, and then use the result of the expression as an ar

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! >> On 17 Dec 2014, at 01:32, Stanislav Malyshev >> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >>> AIUI, this RFC is meant to introduce some sugar only. Wouldn't >>> it be >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "some sugar only". It introduces the >> capability of using objects in array key context, which was not

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Christoph Becker
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> AIUI, this RFC is meant to introduce some sugar only. Wouldn't it be > > I'm not sure what you mean by "some sugar only". It introduces the > capability of using objects in array key context, which was not > available until now. Yes, but it is already possible to ca

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Stas, > On 17 Dec 2014, at 01:32, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > Hi! > >> AIUI, this RFC is meant to introduce some sugar only. Wouldn't it be > > I'm not sure what you mean by "some sugar only". It introduces the > capability of using objects in array key context, which was not > available

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > AIUI, this RFC is meant to introduce some sugar only. Wouldn't it be I'm not sure what you mean by "some sugar only". It introduces the capability of using objects in array key context, which was not available until now. > possible to have object hashes without __hash(), by introducing a

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Christoph Becker
guilhermebla...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Matteo Beccati > wrote: > >> Are you sure you haven't misinterpreted the RFC? > > I did not. You may think I mentioned IdentityMap as entity map, but I'm > talking about entityPersister mapping or resultPointers consumptions tha

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread guilhermebla...@gmail.com
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Matteo Beccati wrote:Hi Guilherme, > >> On 16/12/2014 12:34, Guilherme Blanco wrote: >> Hi, >> All I can say is that the lack of this feature is one of the main reasons why Doctrine doesn't fully work with composite keys. >> With this enhancement it would now bec

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Hi Pierre, > >> On 16 Dec 2014, at 23:42, Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> >> On Dec 17, 2014 4:19 AM, "Andrea Faulds" wrote: >> > >> > Hmm, actually, a 2to3-esque tool and a formal extension of 5.6's support >> > by a year sounds like a better s

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Pierre, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 23:42, Pierre Joye wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2014 4:19 AM, "Andrea Faulds" wrote: > > > > Hmm, actually, a 2to3-esque tool and a formal extension of 5.6's support by > > a year sounds like a better solution. If others agree, I might withdraw > > this RFC. > > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Dec 17, 2014 4:19 AM, "Andrea Faulds" wrote: > > Hey Florian, > > > On 16 Dec 2014, at 19:55, Florian Margaine wrote: > > > > Hi list, > > > > I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED > > is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other language

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
> From: a...@adamharvey.name [mailto:a...@adamharvey.name] On > Behalf Of Adam Harvey > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:29 AM > To: Zeev Suraski > Cc: PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > I think it's actually more likely that people will upgrade to a new minor > than a >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ferenc Kovacs [mailto:tyr...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:53 PM > > To: Florian Margaine > > Cc: Rowan Collins; PHP Internals > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > > > plea

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
> > > > - Rolling out a 5.7 with Warnings-of-any-kind + some little-or-not new > > features cancels point number one > > > > What else ? > > Do nothing is still (IMHO) the most sensible option IMHO. We're not seeing > major compatibility breakages in 7.0 (at least not at this time), to the > level

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 14:19, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: a...@adamharvey.name [mailto:a...@adamharvey.name] On >> Behalf Of Adam Harvey >> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:10 AM >> To: Zeev Suraski >> Cc: PHP Internals >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 >>

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
> -Original Message- > From: a...@adamharvey.name [mailto:a...@adamharvey.name] On > Behalf Of Adam Harvey > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:10 AM > To: Zeev Suraski > Cc: PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > On 16 December 2014 at 14:00, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Julien Pauli wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Florian Margaine > wrote: > > > > Hi list, > > > > I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding > E_DEPRECATED > > is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 14:00, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> - We cannot patch 5.6 to add any Warnings-of-any-kind (stable release, >> under release process that forbids that) > > What part of the release process forbids that? None, but I'd still advocate releasing a new minor because there's plenty of a

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
> -Original Message- > From: Ferenc Kovacs [mailto:tyr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:53 PM > To: Florian Margaine > Cc: Rowan Collins; PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > please be aware the not everybody agrees on the no new features rule, but > f

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 13:18, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Hmm, actually, a 2to3-esque tool and a formal extension of 5.6's support by a > year sounds like a better solution. If others agree, I might withdraw this > RFC. I disagree. 2to3 wasn't a success in the Python world — in the end, the only mig

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
> -Original Message- > From: julienpa...@gmail.com [mailto:julienpa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Julien Pauli > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:00 PM > To: Florian Margaine > Cc: Rowan Collins; PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > - We cannot patch 5.6 to add any War

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Florian Margaine wrote: > > Hi list, > > I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED > is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages > for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor versions have brought new

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Florian, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 19:55, Florian Margaine wrote: > > Hi list, > > I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED > is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages > for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor versions have

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Julien Pauli
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Florian Margaine wrote: > > Hi list, > > I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED > is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages > for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor versions have brought new

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Rowan Collins
On 16 December 2014 18:50:06 GMT, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >Hi! > >> Explicit conversion is trivial, just call whatever method you like. >> Sure, you can't write (int)$obj, but $obj->toInt() is just as >> expressive. > >Exactly the same applies to __toString and whole ArrayAccess, yet we >still

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Florian Margaine
Hi list, I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor versions have brought new features. Adding notices is not a reason for a new version imho. If

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 10:38, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/gc_fn_pointer >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize (also 5.6 if RMs agree) >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closure_apply >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pa

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Rowan Collins
On 16 December 2014 16:44:59 GMT, Zeev Suraski wrote: >as you mentioned distros lock in to a specific micro version, so if we >introduce this deprecated messages in random micro version, we make it >less >likely for the users to stumble upon those deprecated messages and it >will >be also harder f

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Explicit conversion is trivial, just call whatever method you like. > Sure, you can't write (int)$obj, but $obj->toInt() is just as > expressive. Exactly the same applies to __toString and whole ArrayAccess, yet we still have them. Avoiding boilerplate code helps. Especially if boilterplate

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Rowan Collins
On 16 December 2014 18:14:27 GMT, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >Hi! > >> I was previously in favour of this, but it’d prevent actual indexing > >No, of course it won't - if we ever introduce indexing objects (which >probably will require rewrite of the HashTable, any takers?) it would >be >very eas

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/gc_fn_pointer > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize (also 5.6 if RMs agree) > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closure_apply > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pack_unpack_64bit_formats (targeting 5.6) > https://wiki.ph

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] IntlChar class and intl_char_*() functions

2014-12-16 Thread Sara Golemon
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Thanks for your work! I think it may be good to make it a pull, since > it'd be easier to comment on that (and also Travis can say its word of > course :) > Can do! https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/961 > It says "some methods" but I

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I was previously in favour of this, but it’d prevent actual indexing No, of course it won't - if we ever introduce indexing objects (which probably will require rewrite of the HashTable, any takers?) it would be very easy to index any object that does not implement __hash without any BC pr

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Dec 16, 2014 10:23 PM, "Zeev Suraski" wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: morrison.l...@gmail.com [mailto:morrison.l...@gmail.com] On > > Behalf Of Levi Morrison > > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:29 AM > > To: Xinchen Hui > > Cc: Andrea Faulds; PHP Internals > > Subject: Re:

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Dec 16, 2014 9:10 PM, "Zeev Suraski" wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:a...@ajf.me] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:00 AM > > To: Ferenc Kovacs > > Cc: Matteo Beccati; Xinchen Hui; PHP Internals > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > > > Hey,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > as you mentioned distros lock in to a specific micro version, so if we > introduce this deprecated messages in random micro version, we make it less > likely for the users to stumble upon those deprecated messages and it will > be also harde

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
as you mentioned distros lock in to a specific micro version, so if we introduce this deprecated messages in random micro version, we make it less likely for the users to stumble upon those deprecated messages and it will be also harder for us to communicate the upgrade path: compare: okay, you o

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Levi Morrison
> I was initially very much in favour of a 5.7 release, but given the current > lack of big BC breaks I'm not so sure. I can even run a dinosaur like Revive > on PHP7! > > If the list of BC breaks grows (e.g. PHP4 constructors -- which I seriously > hope doesn't pass -- or other big / evil ones), t

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Levi Morrison
>> >> There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7". I have >> made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP >> 5.7, >> to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. >> >> >> > I am wondering why we need that? no new features

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: morrison.l...@gmail.com [mailto:morrison.l...@gmail.com] On > > Behalf Of Levi Morrison > > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:29 AM > > To: Xinchen Hui > > Cc: Andrea Faulds; PHP Internals > > Subject:

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > Hey Matteo, > > > On 16 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Matteo Beccati wrote: > > > > This is what I meant when I previously mentioned seeing RFCs targeting > 5.7. I understand what you say and I do wholeheartedly agree with you. > > > > However if o

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > Hey Matteo, > > > On 16 Dec 2014, at 10:52, Matteo Beccati wrote: > > > > On 16/12/2014 08:55, Andrea Faulds wrote: > >> Could you tell me which RFCs targeted 5.7 and didn’t just add > deprecation notices? I’m unaware of any. > > > > I've

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > Hi! > > > There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7". I have > > made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, > > PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new > > features whats

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
> -Original Message- > From: morrison.l...@gmail.com [mailto:morrison.l...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Levi Morrison > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:29 AM > To: Xinchen Hui > Cc: Andrea Faulds; PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > >> There has been some debate about w

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
> -Original Message- > From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:a...@ajf.me] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:00 AM > To: Ferenc Kovacs > Cc: Matteo Beccati; Xinchen Hui; PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 > > Hey, > > > On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:58, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > > We a

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Florian Margaine
Hi, Le 16 déc. 2014 13:45, "Rowan Collins" a écrit : > > Patrick Schaaf wrote on 16/12/2014 11:46: > >> Am 16.12.2014 12:36 schrieb "Matteo Beccati" : >>> >>> On 16/12/2014 11:52, Andrea Faulds wrote: I was previously in favour of this, but it’d prevent actual indexing by objects i

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Rowan Collins
Patrick Schaaf wrote on 16/12/2014 11:46: Am 16.12.2014 12:36 schrieb "Matteo Beccati" : On 16/12/2014 11:52, Andrea Faulds wrote: I was previously in favour of this, but it’d prevent actual indexing by objects in future, and I can’t think of any use cases which aren’t better solved by explicit

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick Schaaf
Am 16.12.2014 12:36 schrieb "Matteo Beccati" : > > On 16/12/2014 11:52, Andrea Faulds wrote: >> >> I was previously in favour of this, but it’d prevent actual indexing >> by objects in future, and I can’t think of any use cases which aren’t >> better solved by explicitly converting to a string/inte

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
Hi Guilherme, On 16/12/2014 12:34, Guilherme Blanco wrote: Hi, All I can say is that the lack of this feature is one of the main reasons why Doctrine doesn't fully work with composite keys. With this enhancement it would now become possible to implement a proper IdentityMap. Are you sure yo

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 16/12/2014 11:52, Andrea Faulds wrote: This is the main problem with the RFC: magic, implicit, one-way data loss (object to integer/string). I was previously in favour of this, but it’d prevent actual indexing by objects in future, and I can’t think of any use cases which aren’t better solved

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Guilherme Blanco
Hi, All I can say is that the lack of this feature is one of the main reasons why Doctrine doesn't fully work with composite keys. With this enhancement it would now become possible to implement a proper IdentityMap. []s, On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote: >> >> On 16 Dec 201

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Matteo, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Matteo Beccati wrote: > > This is what I meant when I previously mentioned seeing RFCs targeting 5.7. I > understand what you say and I do wholeheartedly agree with you. > > However if one would have to strictly follow what has been voted, such > featur

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 16/12/2014 12:03, Andrea Faulds wrote: I wrote the Closure::call() and intdiv() RFCs. Truth be told, they both targeted master, not a specific PHP version. master has become PHP 7, so whatever the wording of them said, they really target PHP 7 now. They were written back before the whole PHP 7

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
Hi Andrea, On 16/12/2014 12:10, Andrea Faulds wrote: It'd be nice to describe what we have now for 5.7 - i.e. which deprecation messages and other warnings are on the agenda? Doesn't have to be the exclusive list but at least to give the idea what we're talking about. At the moment, there’s Le

Re: [PHP-DEV] On the road to PHP 5.7 , or not ?

2014-12-16 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
Patrick Schaaf in php.internals (Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:36:33 +0100): >Now with PHP 7 promising potential for incompatibilities in a lot more >areas, it would be, to us, a really useful option to have a 5.7 that is >operationally fully compatible with 5.6 with added E_DEPRECATED for things >bound to b

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Stas, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 09:25, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >> There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7". I have >> made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, >> PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new >> features whatsoever.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
> > On 16 Dec 2014, at 10:52, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > Exactly. If I were to do this: > >class Foo { >public $foo; >function __construct($foo) { >$this->foo = $foo; >} >function __toKey() { >return $this->foo; >} >} >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Matteo, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 10:52, Matteo Beccati wrote: > > On 16/12/2014 08:55, Andrea Faulds wrote: >> Could you tell me which RFCs targeted 5.7 and didn’t just add deprecation >> notices? I’m unaware of any. > > I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs: > > https://wiki.php.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 16/12/2014 08:55, Andrea Faulds wrote: Could you tell me which RFCs targeted 5.7 and didn’t just add deprecation notices? I’m unaware of any. I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/gc_fn_pointer https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize (also 5.6 if R

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Markus, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 10:31, Markus Fischer wrote: > > On 16.12.14 09:34, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> I'd like to initiate a vote on "objects as keys" RFC: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/objkey > > Am I right this only covers the transformation into the array. Once it's > in it's essent

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Markus Fischer
On 16.12.14 09:34, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > I'd like to initiate a vote on "objects as keys" RFC: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/objkey Am I right this only covers the transformation into the array. Once it's in it's essential a array compatible key entity (string/integer) so when you var_dump($arr

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0?

2014-12-16 Thread Alain Williams
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 06:48:14PM +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Instead of polling people, how about provide a compatibility check script? > This would be easy with tokenizer, I suppose. +1 -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0?

2014-12-16 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Hi all, On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > Precisely why I suggested we do a poll and find out. Polling is a valid > > means of getting a reasonable accounting of a particular metric. > > If you do it in a professional way, with properly randomized samples, > contro

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7". I have > made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, > PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new > features whatsoever. > > The hope is that we can put this to a vote in 2 weeks’ time an

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0?

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Precisely why I suggested we do a poll and find out. Polling is a valid > means of getting a reasonable accounting of a particular metric. If you do it in a professional way, with properly randomized samples, controlled statistics, etc. Putting a form on the internet and counting people

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/12/14 07:29, Levi Morrison wrote: >>> There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7". I have made a >>> very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be >>> released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. >>> >> >> > I am wondering

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] IntlChar class and intl_char_*() functions

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Full implementation available now at > https://github.com/sgolemon/php-src/compare/intl.uchar > RFC updated to remove the functional API and clarify some things based > on what I learned while implementing. Thanks for your work! I think it may be good to make it a pull, since it'd be easier

[PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! I'd like to initiate a vote on "objects as keys" RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/objkey I know this is a holiday season but it was extensively discussed and I think most people already formed their opinions. I've put the voting period as 3 weeks to have some time for people to vote even with th

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0?

2014-12-16 Thread Sara Golemon
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, George Bond wrote: >> If you wanted an upgrade path that was not Evil (in the sense of not >> introducing subtle and hard-to-diagnose bugs), could you not change >> the operator to be *un*associative in PHP7? That would

Re: [PHP-DEV] On the road to PHP 5.7 , or not ?

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 21:08 +0100, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > there are two advantages for having 5.7 and having those deprecated > > messages in 5.7: > > 1, if we introduce the deprecated message in 5.6.x, some people will miss > > it (

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > Hey, > > > On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:58, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > > We already has one accepted RFC which targets 5.7, and as I mentioned > before 5.7.0 wouldn't be featureless, but would contain the small > self-contained features which are

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:58, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > We already has one accepted RFC which targets 5.7, and as I mentioned before > 5.7.0 wouldn't be featureless, but would contain the small self-contained > features which are currently targeting 5.6.x. > So 5.7.0 would be a minor version