Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: HEAD == PHP 7 (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names)

2005-09-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Pierre Joye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From my side, after some cleanup, I should be UC ready pretty soon, > but that is all post pear-1.4.0/5.1.0 stories :) + ext/gd -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: HEAD == PHP 7 (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names)

2005-09-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think that's feasible as it makes development even harder. > I don't think Unicode support is that far off. Most of the core work > is done. The more people can help with upgrading the functions the better... I agree here, as far as """

[PHP-DEV] Re: HEAD == PHP 7 (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names)

2005-09-16 Thread Andi Gutmans
I don't think that's feasible as it makes development even harder. I don't think Unicode support is that far off. Most of the core work is done. The more people can help with upgrading the functions the better... I'm off for the weekend Might find some Internet connection at some point. And

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really meant what I said. Like Andi said, PHP 6 won't > be out very soon, but I'd really like to have the cleaned > up PHP, preferrably yesterday. This year is fine too. > > And without unicode.. Having a PHP6 and a PHP

[PHP-DEV] HEAD == PHP 7 (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names)

2005-09-16 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Andi Gutmans wrote: I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build without ICU. With the whole Call that version PHP 7. core using the ICU library it's almost like not supporting libC. If you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and discuss but I think it's not

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-16 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Pierre Joye wrote: On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jani, I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU library it's almost like not supporting libC. If you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and di

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jani, > > I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build > without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU > library it's almost like not supporting libC. If > you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and > discuss but I think it's not real

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think most of that list can be implemented but while it's easy to > give a +1 and make the changes, I still want to dive into some of > them more. I've been much busier looking at the Unicode stuff and > 5.1.x patches so I didn't have a lot of

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Andi Gutmans
I think most of that list can be implemented but while it's easy to give a +1 and make the changes, I still want to dive into some of them more. I've been much busier looking at the Unicode stuff and 5.1.x patches so I didn't have a lot of time to look into it. I think it's quite reasonable to

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jani, > > I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build > without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU > library it's almost like not supporting libC. If > you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and > discuss but I think it's not rea

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Andi Gutmans
Jani, I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU library it's almost like not supporting libC. If you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and discuss but I think it's not realistic. Regarding spring cleaning, I suggest to relax a bi

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
Touché. :) But I must insist. I want to upgrade at some point. I might even have use for unicode, at some point. But why can't I disable it as long as it does not give me anything I need? On other topic, I want to do the spring cleaning we discussed earlier already in PH

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Wez Furlong
No one is forcing you to upgrade to PHP 6. --Wez. On 9/15/05, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't care about this as long as I can DISABLE it from > my PHP builds (and not be forced to link it with ICU). > > --Jani > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Jani Taskinen
I don't care about this as long as I can DISABLE it from my PHP builds (and not be forced to link it with ICU). --Jani On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Makoto Tozawa wrote: Jani Taskinen wrote: Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :)

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-15 Thread Petar Nedyalkov
On Thursday 15 September 2005 06:12, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Makoto Tozawa wrote: > > Jani Taskinen wrote: > >> Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :) > >> One that really NEEDS this to be possible.. > > > > It's impossible to find one as PHP doesn't support it tod

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Makoto Tozawa wrote: > Jani Taskinen wrote: > >> Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :) >> One that really NEEDS this to be possible.. > > > It's impossible to find one as PHP doesn't support it today. > > Think of defining a class which encapsulates a database

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Makoto Tozawa
Jani Taskinen wrote: Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :) One that really NEEDS this to be possible.. It's impossible to find one as PHP doesn't support it today. Think of defining a class which encapsulates a database table, and the table name and column n

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/14/05, Tex Texin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre, I am glad it is acceptable to you. What you say does not apply to > everyone. > > > Well, english is the language of choice for programming > > because everyone understands very basic english words. > > This is just not true. It is true f

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread l0t3k
""Tex Texin"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- >>It is fine you don't want or intend to take advantage of it. (Personally, >>I >>think more than 5 characters in an identifier is too much to type.) >>But why do you want to not let others us

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > What do you mean? Why wouldn't it be portable? > > Well, for one thing code written to use unicode identifiers will > immediately be limited to running on PHP 6 installs. While code using > ASCII identifier with standard

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ondrej Ivanič wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > > On 9/13/05, Ondrej Ivanič <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >IMHO, if someone need ... > > > > I know, that's why I say: PHP6. > > Another constraint? why? > > 1) It's a BC break (... which impact 1 or 2 users? :) ) Actually,

RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Tex Texin
> -Original Message- > From: Jani Taskinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Tex Texin wrote: > > > ok, so you shouldn't program in french. For others it is fine and > > works better than english. > > Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Bretz
In addition to the ongoing discussion I like to ask, how far you would like to go? If you like unicode support for functions, classes and variable names, are you willing to do the same for all the php specific function names and php language specific words? Will "function" and "class" or "return

RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Tex Texin wrote: ok, so you shouldn't program in french. For others it is fine and works better than english. Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :) One that really NEEDS this to be possible.. I'm with Pierre on this, and I'm not nati

RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Tex Texin
snipped... > > Check the history, every language developement tools which > tried to do it do not support it anymore. Why? For the exact > same reasons listed in this thread. I am not sure why you say this. Java and other languages support multilingual identifiers. The newest standards for pr

RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Tex Texin
gt; From: Pierre Joye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:38 AM > To: Tex Texin > Cc: Andi Gutmans; Andrei Zmievski; Rasmus Lerdorf; Ilia > Alshanetsky; internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, > classes,methods, vars name

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/14/05, Tex Texin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Imagine implementing some complicated workflow or other process or algorithm, > where each > step has a name in the local language, and as a programmer, you have to come > up with a > meaningless (to you) string to represent it, and having to s

RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes,methods, vars names

2005-09-14 Thread Tex Texin
ED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:28 PM > To: Andrei Zmievski; Rasmus Lerdorf > Cc: Ilia Alshanetsky; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, > classes,methods, vars names > > > Me too... > > At 09:16 AM

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Andi Gutmans
Me too... At 09:16 AM 9/13/2005, Andrei Zmievski wrote: Yep, what Rasmus said. -Andrei On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would really like to have only ASCII support...

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 20:12 13/09/2005, Sebastian Nohn wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: This is a choice that should be up to the developer. If she wants to share his code with people who don't understand his language and/or character set, then she should use some common language/character set. But the language shou

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Sara Golemon
> The language does put a limitation as it > does not provide a way to show the > identifiers in a neutral way. For example > ACI 4D (for those who knows it) did it > in the right way. All functions are localized, > I can choose the language I want I will be > able to read the identifiers. But I do

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Sebastian Nohn
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: This is a choice that should be up to the developer. If she wants to share his code with people who don't understand his language and/or character set, then she should use some common language/character set. But the language should not force this limitation on her. Why n

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/13/05, Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a choice that should be up to the developer. If she wants to > share his code with people who don't understand his language and/or > character set, then she should use some common language/character set. > But the language should not

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >>What do you mean? Why wouldn't it be portable? > > > Well, for one thing code written to use unicode identifiers will > immediately be limited to running on PHP 6 installs. While code using > ASCII identifier with standard "compat" layer cou

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > What do you mean? Why wouldn't it be portable? Well, for one thing code written to use unicode identifiers will immediately be limited to running on PHP 6 installs. While code using ASCII identifier with standard "compat" layer could run just fine. Another reason to onl

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Andrei Zmievski
Yep, what Rasmus said. -Andrei On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would really like to have only ASCII support... +1 IMHO language identifiers should be limited to ASCII.

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > >>is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would >>really like to have only ASCII support... > > > +1 IMHO language identifiers should be limited to ASCII. Yes you can now > use language specific chars by changing the locale, so th

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Pierre Joye wrote: > is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would > really like to have only ASCII support... +1 IMHO language identifiers should be limited to ASCII. Yes you can now use language specific chars by changing the locale, so that ž, č, ÿ are taken, but that hardly

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Pierre Joye wrote: On 9/13/05, Ondrej Ivanič <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMHO, if someone need ... I know, that's why I say: PHP6. Another constraint? why? 1) It's a BC break (... which impact 1 or 2 users? :) ) 2) PHP can be scripting engine in learning programs for children ( like this:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Pierre Joye wrote: Do we really want to support unicode for functions, classes, methods and variables names? No. I don't need unicode at all, but if I ever would need it, it would be enough if I can store it in variables. (which I can do already, without any f

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Pierre Joye
On 9/13/05, Ondrej Ivanič <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > > > > is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would > > really like to have only ASCII support... > > This suff works in php4,5: > > > function zmaž($čozmazať) { > echo "mažem $čozmazať\n"; >

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Pierre Joye wrote: is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would really like to have only ASCII support... This suff works in php4,5: IMHO, if someone need ... -- Ondrej Ivanič ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, v

[PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

2005-09-13 Thread Pierre Joye
Hello, Do we really want to support unicode for functions, classes, methods and variables names? I really like to have unicode for comments (// /* */) and inside quotes. But having: is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would really like to have only ASCII support... Rega