Re: [PHP-DEV] How does the interpreter work

2009-12-21 Thread Rob Nicholson
Christian Grobmeier wrote on 21/12/2009 13:56:08: > I would like to learn more about how the interpreter works, but I was > unable to find good documents on the web. Basically I am thinking on > something about allocation of variables, how does object creation work > and such stuff. Maybe somet

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: Optimizer discussion

2009-06-07 Thread Rob Nicholson
we have written are now in cvs, we are still a little behind with contributing all the engine tests we have written. Hopefully they'll all be there before you need them. Rob Nicholson Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Removing the Zend API

2009-04-06 Thread Rob Nicholson
t. In order for extensions to adopt it, we would need to convince their maintainers that the project had traction. I wonder whether improving the interface could be combined with some of the unicode work so that the resulting porting work for unicode was simpler? Rob Nicholson Unl

Re: [PHP-DEV] Writing PHPT tests

2008-02-02 Thread Rob Nicholson
s too. Since the testcase generator adds these comments its worth documenting them. I'll produce a patch to the documentation for review if you like. Rob Nicholson From: zoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: 02/02/2008 11:21 Subject: [PHP-DEV] Writing PHPT t

Re: [PHP-DEV] how php knows the charset of my code?

2007-09-27 Thread Rob Nicholson
Suggest you check out the slides from one of Andrei's talks on the subject. http://www.gravitonic.com/talks/ Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO

Re: [PHP-DEV] how php knows the charset of my code?

2007-09-27 Thread Rob Nicholson
drysler, So you are asking about what PHP6 calls "script_encoding". PHP5 does not have this concept. PHP5 does not know the character set that your script is encoded in. The script can be encoded in any character set that is "ASCII compatible". ASCII compatible encodings have the property t