Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Focus on HEAD

2009-03-27 Thread Steph
Felipe Pena wrote: Hello, just to inform, I've commited (yesterday) the patch removing the UG(unicode) checks, etc across all source (except mysql exts). As the patch has 492K, looks as no mail will be sent. I'd given up hope of ever seeing that reach CVS :) Thanks Felipe! - Step

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_3) / UPGRADING

2009-03-25 Thread Steph
Hi Lukas, all, Well the last thread on the topic ("5.3 todos") stopped with Steph explaining that there are 2 different documents, one the UPGRADING guide in php-src and one being the manual and that she intends to focus the UPGRADING guide to be short and to the point for sysadmi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_3) / UPGRADING

2009-03-25 Thread Steph
Hannes Magnusson wrote: And now to the list too *sigh*, sorry Steph :) I did wonder :) On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 13:49, Steph wrote: Hannes Magnusson wrote: 2009/1/28 Steph Fox : sfoxWed Jan 28 17:23:28 2009 UTC Modified files: (Branch: PHP_5_3) /php-src

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_3) / UPGRADING

2009-03-25 Thread Steph
Hannes Magnusson wrote: 2009/1/28 Steph Fox : sfoxWed Jan 28 17:23:28 2009 UTC Modified files: (Branch: PHP_5_3) /php-srcUPGRADING Log: - Skeleton version taken directly from the scratchpad and tidied. @Lukas, Johannes: This is nowhere near complete, and may

Re: [PHP-DEV] phar update

2009-02-21 Thread Steph Fox
Hi Kalle, and in 124 tests fails for in HEAD, instead of writing an insanely long list here, I have zipped both the test log and diffs for 5.3 and HEAD which can be downloaded here: Yeah, that's normal - most of Phar doesn't work yet in HEAD. Thanks! - Steph -- PHP Internals - P

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote: allow_call_time_pass_reference value in production INI

2009-02-19 Thread Steph Fox
ended (which is generally taken as 'ini-production' by the community at large) throws warnings that are not thrown by default, which seems pretty weird to me. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote: allow_call_time_pass_reference value in production INI

2009-02-19 Thread Steph Fox
allow_call_time_pass_reference = Off (Issue Warnings) Eric Lee Stewart +1 Switching it off by default in ini-dist and main.c would be good too! http://wiki.php.net/rfc/calltimebyref - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-12 Thread Steph Fox
It doesn't matter that the XML file is long. Each section is broken up into a separate page in the manual. I'm talking about the UPGRADE file in the source, which is plain text. Have you ever tried to read it? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To u

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-12 Thread Steph Fox
BUT perhaps some of the more complex explanations should have their own document. If it 'requires more explanation than we want to provide in the documentation' that does seem to suggest that a development perhaps DOES need better doumentation? In the manual, really. But - quite

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-12 Thread Steph Fox
t whatever usefulness it had in the src as a result. Sure, the guide be better structured. But it should contain everything. It's nothing to do with structure. "Everything" makes for a very long file, full stop. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing L

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-12 Thread Steph Fox
ame of the file. See, I _knew_ we were looking at completely different things..! How's about a short, sane version in the src and an extended bells-and-whistles version for the manual? With a link provided in the src version to the extended version. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-12 Thread Steph Fox
a bit excessive, but we do at the very very very least need to link to the page that lists them then. That's not a problem. Lead me to your docs :) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-11 Thread Steph Fox
ting both, I just want to be very clear about their purpose. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-11 Thread Steph Fox
er can possibly impact existing code; ergo, it has no place in an upgrade guide. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-11 Thread Steph Fox
sting new extensions, functions and class constants? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-11 Thread Steph Fox
uplicating the release notes seems a bit pointless. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 todos

2009-02-11 Thread Steph Fox
features in PHP syntax (exception: reserved keywords). We should focus on things that are deprecating, missing or else behave differently in some way IMHO. Comments welcome, - Steph - Original Message - From: "Lukas Kahwe Smith" To: "PHP Internals List" Sent: We

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC lite] implement import of functions in namespace

2009-01-21 Thread Steph Fox
ver a year now, and it is an extremely simple patch. [RFC] Implement importing of functions to complement importing of classes and namespaces. Sounds like a darn good idea to me. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] beta1

2009-01-19 Thread Steph Fox
Hi Lukas, I am also waiting on some word on the upgrading guide, Steph??? Yes, I'm on it. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.0beta1

2009-01-05 Thread Steph Fox
One of the big items on the todo list is turning the scratch pad into an actual upgrading guide. Would be great if someone could take the lead on this (and others helping out too of course). I promised this a loong time ago, no problem with it now either. - Steph -- PHP Internals

Re: [PHP-DEV] Undefined constants producing E_NOTICE

2008-12-20 Thread Steph Fox
be a flexible language, but for me it's a bit thick. Just how is PHP supposed to know that some random string is intended to be anything else? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] 2008 is 1s longer than normal.

2008-12-18 Thread Steph Fox
No: http://derickrethans.nl/php_lags_23_seconds.php Hm, Wikipedia's apparently less than open there - [12:36] so how come PHP's different? [12:36] olson has information on it, but it's never used - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscri

Re: [PHP-DEV] 2008 is 1s longer than normal.

2008-12-18 Thread Steph Fox
would be a red herring anyway Richard, the Olson tz database used by PHP is used by several other projects too - including the GNU C library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3

2008-12-08 Thread Steph Fox
"If not now, when?" Later? Would you mind reading the thread first please? :) The subject's a tad misleading at this stage. - Steph -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3 (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7 + magic_quotes_gpc broken)

2008-12-08 Thread Steph Fox
6.0 iirc its already off by default in that branch. Ilia, it doesn't *exist* in that branch! - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3 (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7 + magic_quotes_gpc broken)

2008-12-08 Thread Steph Fox
As much as I hate the feature, I am not certain that is a good idea in a minor release. "If not now, when?" - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3 (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7 + magic_quotes_gpc broken)

2008-12-08 Thread Steph Fox
record here, they (magic quotes, register global and safe mode) are already removed in php6. All the more reason to disable them all by default and have them throw E_DEPRECATED in 5.3. - Steph Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime De

Re: [PHP-DEV] About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3 (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7 + magic_quotes_gpc broken)

2008-12-08 Thread Steph Fox
Hi Scott, Agreed, going from on by default to removed just feels odd. I'd disable it by default in 5.3 and lets start throwing a strict error if the configuration enables it. Why do we have E_DEPRECATED if we're not going to use it? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime D

Re: [PHP-DEV] quick polls for 5.3

2008-11-12 Thread Steph Fox
ke to see it in 5.3 because it was supposed to fix several OB issues, but it's probably too late in the cycle now 8) MFH mcrypt cleanups in HEAD. either the make sense or they dont, so either (choose one) a) revert in HEAD b) MFH to 5.3 0 (not enough insight to vote on this) Thanks, -

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] bracketed namespace declarations

2008-11-08 Thread Steph Fox
? Also, the *only* supported use case behind allowing multiple namespaces per file is to allow people to mash pre-existing separate PHP files together, and have them still compile. Requiring brackets is designed to make it more readable, and the "use" restriction furthers that goal.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Call it: allow reserved words in a class or not?

2008-11-06 Thread Steph Fox
to support the basics in a way that make sense. Great, so drop PHP and go use Javascript. Oh wait - you can't. Because *it wasn't designed do the same job*. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Call it: allow reserved words in a class or not?

2008-11-06 Thread Steph Fox
you're telling us 'cough' should rhyme with 'cow' because that's how Esperanto would have it. But English is so much easier to learn, if more difficult to master, that it's become the lingua franca for the 'net. - Steph Dan On Thu, Nov 6,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Call it: allow reserved words in a class or not?

2008-11-06 Thread Steph Fox
entire thrust of the internals discussion preceding this has been that preserving similar resolution rules in namespaced PHP code to those that already exist, will avoid potential confusion. And don't tell me to 'grow up' or I'll set my grandchildren on you ;) - Ste

Re: [PHP-DEV] Call it: allow reserved words in a class or not?

2008-11-06 Thread Steph Fox
s that there would be no thread... oo-er... - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
As you pointed out, there is no autoload for functions, so people are accustomed to ensuring that all functions are loaded before usage. Am I missing something? Yes - you're missing the possibility of overriding, AKA naming collisions between internal and userspace funcs/consts. -

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
makes coding easier in the long run. Stefan just convinced me of this in a *much* shorter post :) +1 - Steph Greg -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubs

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
prefix > every > single occurence, you just have to say at the top of the file "When I > say > Exception, I mean \Exception". The point is that your dev would have done exactly that, so whether your user has the setting on or off is immaterial. - Steph No, the dev

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
Exception, I mean \Exception". The point is that your dev would have done exactly that, so whether your user has the setting on or off is immaterial. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
those least likely to be loading lots of third-party OO code in the first place. No ini settings for basic behavior. Ah well we might as well throw out E_STRICT too! - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
What am I missing? That INI is the worst we could do. Because it prevents from writing portable code. This particular INI doesn't prevent anyone writing portable code. It simply gives the option of a 'tighter' development mode. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Deve

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
im through prefix hell. What am I missing? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src /win32/build template.rc

2008-11-04 Thread Steph Fox
only ever installed one compiler :) I bet it was overwritten with the final upgrade. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable

2008-10-31 Thread Steph Fox
developers are key. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Class visibility in namespaces

2008-10-30 Thread Steph Fox
know how many users PHP has either. I do know though that if we get it badly wrong, it will cause a lot of people a lot of problems It doesn't matter what other languages do, because other languages don't have it 100% right either. If any of them did, why would there be more than

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Class visibility in namespaces

2008-10-30 Thread Steph Fox
esting in 2002. This was originally scheduled for full release in PHP 5.0. (PHP is not, by the way, 'an OO language' in the sense you use the term.) It certainly wasn't withdrawn for the reasons you suggest. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha2 scheduled

2008-10-28 Thread Steph Fox
inority would scream whatever we did. an semisolution would be an php.ini variable like NAMSPACE_SEPARATOR="::" :-) Now go away and think really hard about what you wrote there, and you'll maybe understand that smiley. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development

Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha2 scheduled

2008-10-28 Thread Steph Fox
am continues even if is an bad decision (they call it technical one) if you see it from the point of view of syntax elegance it's not so pretty even c++ looks better . === I'm not even going to comment on that. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Steph Fox
or that there weren't several proposals of ways to get around the known problems. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Steph Fox
These aren't the only ways. OK. 4) Claim that there is no real problem in addressing ambiguous situations. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Steph Fox
him. We couldn't have known his criteria and symbol set were correct without that history either; we'd have been stuck on 'why not :' forever. Hope it all works out, either way. As do we all :) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Steph Fox
ea of namespace support because whatever is done will appear 'wrong' to /. readers Every other option leads to ambiguity in namespace syntax. That's not because we need more time to think things over so it can be 'implemented properly', it's just straight fact.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: namespace separator and whining

2008-10-26 Thread Steph Fox
o me, I just read :: as a method call in Robert's example rather than as a new class. Guess I should sleep before typing 'as I understand it' again :) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: namespace separator and whining

2008-10-26 Thread Steph Fox
Hi Rob, Wouldn't it be: Yes, as I understand it. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-10-26 Thread Steph Fox
ierre. Remember that. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-10-26 Thread Steph Fox
out being accused of personal attacks, then it is going to be painful. You made a personal attack in a very public space. There have been a _lot_ of technical discussions off-list, including most of the recent Windows-related changes, but you pick on Greg and myself particularly - why, pray? - Steph

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-10-26 Thread Steph Fox
code). Apart from PEAR? I'd to say that I do not care about which symbol is used. @Greg and Steph: Private discussions are bad. Or are you trying to say that this list can't be used as a discussion platform (even heated)? If we like to have a developer only list, let do it, but keep thi

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining

2008-10-26 Thread Steph Fox
iki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace issues

2008-10-21 Thread Steph Fox
in discussing it to death on-list at this stage. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace issues

2008-10-20 Thread Steph Fox
I wasn't planning to open the ns separator discussion again. In fact I think we'd all much rather avoid it completely... As info, in a Spanish keyboard it's the same, Alt Gr+{the key to the left of the 1}. ... but thanks for that part of your input (and same to Ólafur). -

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace issues

2008-10-20 Thread Steph Fox
quite a few people do). Also useful to know :) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace issues

2008-10-20 Thread Steph Fox
Well, on German keyboards, it's accessible but only by using ALTGR+?, which is not really a comfortable combination. Useful to know, thanks Philipp. Any more localized keyboard issues we should know about? Anyone? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubs

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace issues

2008-10-19 Thread Steph Fox
Both Stas' proposal and Greg's option #3 are flawed in that way (either to humans or to the Engine), so the search is on to find a solution that isn't ambivalent to either - always assuming it's possible. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace issues

2008-10-18 Thread Steph Fox
espace separator at all. As far as I'm aware, this is still under investigation (and this time it's for real). - Steph marcus shift+;(x3) vs \ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Internals - PHP Runti

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally #2

2008-10-18 Thread Steph Fox
was interesting that way. It implies that any sensible solution would be accepted by the majority. With that said, I'd enjoy having less noise on the list as much as anyone else. Amen to that. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally #2

2008-10-18 Thread Steph Fox
again. I strongly suggest we all drop it and let them debate amongst themselves in peace for a while ;) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
t; it accepts that there will be ambiguity, and then tries to deal with it. This is also the approach Stas' proposals take. No more namespace separator arguments, ever. It was worth it :) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DEV] Final 'sanity tally' for Greg's proposals (only)

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
Yes Janusz Lewandowski* #4 (alt #3) Yes Steph #3 (alt #2)Abstained Josh Davies #2 (DS)Yes Lester* #3 Yes Alexey #3 Yes Marc Boeren #

[PHP-DEV] Fw: my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
... and this poll is now closed. Thanks Aaron! - Steph - Original Message - From: "Aaron Wormus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: php.internals To: "Greg Beaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: Re: my last attempt a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally #2

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
oader picture of the elements that PHP users would or would not like to see. - Steph (4 votes to go) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] following http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceissues

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
My vote is option 1 please. "use ::: as separator between namespace name and element" That's #2 :) Please clarify. Also - please (briefly) explain why. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally #2

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
y use wildcard votes. Would anyone still planning to vote please include a *brief* explanation of why they're making the choices they're making? Thanks, - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally #2

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
ose anyway, so just bear with me a little longer :) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DEV] Fw: namespaceissues

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
Another one who can't get through... - Original Message - From: "Ken Guest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 3:37 PM Subject: Fwd: namespaceissues -- Forwarded message -- From: Ken Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Oct 17,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally #2

2008-10-17 Thread Steph Fox
Hi Lukas, We are not ready yet. So for now I will not force a decision just yet. Hopefully next week ... I'm going to stop this tally at 50 responses. That should be enough to show us where people generally are coming from. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally #2

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
and Dmitry come together to work on polishing it without further ado. But #1 might still win, and if that happens we'd need to put it to the vote against Stas' original proposal because they're very different concepts. So basically - I'm winging it. Hope that suffices

[PHP-DEV] Re: Sanity tally

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
Proposed solution fine by me. Preference #3 - pick one of them, any of them, they're all improvements over the current state. Many thanks to all the internals folks for working on this one. Michael Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Steph -- Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. I

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
ontrol of the application developer as your example posits. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
that is so wrong, you know 3 was better - you're not in my club :'( Sorry to disappoint, but I'm collecting votes here, not making them up as I go along. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
Why would you do that? I.e. suppose there's library having namespace Zend::Controller::Action::Plugin - why would your name your class Zend::Controller::Action::Plugin and not Steph::Controller::Action::Plugin? Why do you assume all third-party software is going to be ZF? Or that cod

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
to shut up the warnings. I don't think it is a good idea. Feature that you do not need, can not disable and have to work around is called "bug". Can we double-check this? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
#1 and then #3. Thanks :) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
between the two (and everybody else) now. Greg and Stas actually want the same thing here, they just misunderstood one another. (@Greg, @Stas: correct me if I'm wrong.) - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
Greg, you have questions outstanding on-list (mostly from Stas). Please respond to them? nb Stas - I asked the same question about warnings, Greg updated his proposal since then to answer it. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
Greg... Hi Chris, This is actually option #3 on the list of solutions at http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceissues I know. Steph: can you catalog this as a vote for it? Not without Chris even looking at the options. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To

[PHP-DEV] Sanity tally #2

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
r lead, we could get it down to two proposals (Stas' versus Greg's) rather than three in the final round. - Steph NameIssue AIssue B == Greg#2 (alt #3, #1)Yes Guilherme

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
ns resolution in PHP, sadly. If people on this list aren't able to fully grasp the concept, it doesn't have a hope in user space. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] 'Sanity' tally to date

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
e to that accusation into the wiki? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
that simplicity is a major element here. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DEV] 'Sanity' tally to date

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
#4 (D/S) N/A Liz #1 or #3 Yes Andrei- 'agreed with Gregs approach' N/A Janusz Lewandowski #4 Yes Steph #3 (alt #2)Abstained Josh Davies - '#1 and #2 are functionally the s

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces sanity: addition to RFC explaining why Stas's proposal doesn't work

2008-10-16 Thread Steph Fox
idea, you'd know that it removes that problem entirely. Please go and look at his proposals at http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceissues, and then vote? Thanks, - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

2008-10-15 Thread Steph Fox
to internal classes" I'll abstain on this one because I don't feel qualified to weigh the issues (ie I neither use nor write third-party dev tools). Thanks Greg! - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-15 Thread Steph Fox
amp;w=2, and read all the way to the end. Taking ns elements and scope as different principles means we never get the 'dots before the eyes' issue that caused ::: to be turned down in the first place. Derick won't like ::baz() though. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
should wait and see what Greg et al come up with. If they're close to a solution they believe will be acceptable to all, we're voting too soon. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
s. And of course those same people don't mind a bit if the implementation has changed 8 times in the last 6 months, because they understand that they're testing a moving target. No? - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
at what is actually delivered will be robust! - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
to be less than optimal. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
paces, so there will a very bad buzz over the php community if namespaces are ripped out..." and there were further objections on the grounds that namespace support has been 'announced' on php.net. I agree with you that it's an insane risk, but that doesn't mean nobody

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
Broad-scale testing with the ability to alter the implementation should problems become apparent. What you are talking about? Who'll be doing this broad-scale testing, when? Users. And I think Lukas' approach is good - use alpha as a testing ground. - Steph -- PHP Internals - P

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
If you can name something that could further our progress here and that can be done after 5.3 but can't be done right now - name it. Broad-scale testing with the ability to alter the implementation should problems become apparent. Otherwise I see absolutely no reason in postponing the decisi

Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3

2008-10-14 Thread Steph Fox
rstandably want to see their work 'out there', whereas I'm far from alone in thinking it's just not ready to be 'out there' at this stage. - Steph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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