Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar type hinting

2012-02-28 Thread Justin Rovang
Additionally, return type hinting could strengthen the use of interfaces. That could problems with implementing interfaces (or an API) from having to do checking to ensure a method in a class implementing an interface is behaving as it should (returning the right stuff). On 2/28/2012 12:35

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Choosing a distributed version control systemfor PHP

2011-08-26 Thread Justin Rovang
Now hold on a sec - It's ok to vote to determine the fate of PHP development - for the entire PHP-lovin' world. Yet, it's not ok to vote for the handful of developers to collaborate? Three weeks of discussion (based on what I've seen here on the list) seems not enough for such a heavy change.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control systemfor PHP (or not). Call for Participation.

2011-08-15 Thread Justin Rovang
On 8/14/2011 3:42 PM, Lester Caine wrote: Gwynne Raskind wrote: The only real disadvantage to hg is having to handle python code to maintain > it, people might start converting from PHP;) Although phphgadmin is a start > to improving the php interface support and could be a good start at a fully

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control systemfor PHP (or not). Call for Participation.

2011-08-12 Thread Justin Rovang
GitHub (and Bitbucket) have made forking a social endeavour - it's meant to be a noisy space of code forks for collaboration just as Stas mentioned. Bottom line: *if* a DVCS is adopted - enhancing policies and a process that supports little additional burden on maintainers is required. Having

[PHP-DEV] PHP array shorthand changes: splice?

2011-07-18 Thread Justin Rovang
I've sifted through the RFC for the array shorthand changes which are quite nice. Something I'm sure has been brought up, but possibly not recently: shorthand array splice. Has there been any notion to the introduction of this feature in the future? The reason I bring this up is it seems that

[PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.3.1RC2 Testing

2009-10-21 Thread Justin Rovang
Are there changelogs available without downloading? I keep digging but can't find one - only for standard releases (http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.11) >>> On 10/20/2009 at 17:31, Johannes Schlüter wrote: The second release candidate of 5.3.1 was just released for testing and can be d