Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

2015-01-21 Thread Kristopher
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Tony Marston wrote: > > > Because I would rather fight for valid principles than give in. To quote > Emiliano Zapata "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees". I don't think constructors are what he had in mind.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

2015-01-21 Thread Kristopher
tually remove it. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Tony Marston wrote: > "Kristopher" wrote in message news:CAF9U7z-bkYRDwAL8CA4_= > 1dhorl0evp_mzwf6qwqscwdf7n...@mail.gmail.com... > >> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Tony Marston >> wrote: >> &

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

2015-01-20 Thread Kristopher
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Tony Marston wrote: @tony: What's really interesting is that all this time you've spent arguing could have been used to update your code and make this no longer an issue for you. @everyone: Would an RFC be necessary to update the PHP manual to actually recommend

Re: [PHP-DEV] Debugging code ...

2014-11-04 Thread Kristopher
On Tue Nov 04 2014 at 9:31:06 AM Lester Caine wrote: > > Every IDE I've used has always working nicely with docblock annotation > and typing and has provided the facilities people seem to think should > be built in to PHP. > You understand you don't have to use these new features, right? You can

Re: [PHP-DEV] New globals for PUT and DELETE

2014-10-14 Thread Kristopher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > Let’s add $_REQUEST_BODY and $_QUERY_STRING and make them aliases of $_GET > and $_POST then. Because they’re aliases (by-reference superglobals), > there’s no additional memory consumption, but we finally have saner names. > > $_HTTP_REQUE

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Move phpng to master

2014-07-27 Thread Kristopher
Instead of endless, useless bickering, how about everyone both for and against merging jump in and start helping with phpng (docs, api cleanup/stabilization, but fixes, etc)? Imagine how much more stable and ready to merge it would be if you concentrated the saber rattling energy towards actually

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)

2014-07-14 Thread Kristopher
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Alain Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 06:09:22PM +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > > > On 14 Jul 2014, at 18:01, Alain Williams wrote: > > > > > But if you have: > > > > > >function foo(int $a) { > > >... > > > $a = 3 / 2; > > >} > > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Anonymous Classes

2013-09-24 Thread Kristopher
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Terence Copestake < terence.copest...@gmail.com> wrote: > Playing devil's advocate here, could this feature make the language more > expressive? > > Take for example an API where you'd typically wrap a method call in > try/catch blocks to handle the various "outcom

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-18 Thread Kristopher
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Daniel Convissor < dani...@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote: > As someone who writes a lot of open source (and proprietary) code that > gets run on machines that I have no control over, implementing this > proposal will complicate my life. Every time I make a funct