Hi!
> And then when the next people who want to build an alternative engine
> come along, they will include this constant, to make their engine as
> 'compatible' as possible with the current PHP engine.
Yes, same things that happened to user-agent string in browsers may
start happening here. But
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Dan Ackroyd wrote:
> On 6 September 2016 at 22:39, Davey Shafik wrote:
> >
> >
> > The key to this is that it's part of the spec. If you actually want to
> > follow the spec, you have to implement it this way. If you don't, then
> > you're a bad person. :P
>
>
> P
On 6 September 2016 at 22:39, Davey Shafik wrote:
>
>
> The key to this is that it's part of the spec. If you actually want to
> follow the spec, you have to implement it this way. If you don't, then
> you're a bad person. :P
Perhaps you can make the RFC text be clearer then. e.g. to this bit:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Dan Ackroyd wrote:
> On 5 September 2016 at 19:43, Davey Shafik wrote:
> >
> > Instead, it would be better to check PHP_ENGINE ===
> > 'hhvm' && PHP_ENGINE_VERSION_ID <= 30813
>
> And then when the next people who want to build an alternative engine
> come along,
On 5 September 2016 at 19:43, Davey Shafik wrote:
>
> Instead, it would be better to check PHP_ENGINE ===
> 'hhvm' && PHP_ENGINE_VERSION_ID <= 30813
And then when the next people who want to build an alternative engine
come along, they will include this constant, to make their engine as
'compatib
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> Hi Davey,
>
> Davey Shafik wrote:
>
>> A while back I brought a small RFC to internals, that proposed a set of
>> constants that were specifically for alternative implementations to
>> identify themselves as such if they want to conform to t
Hi Davey,
Davey Shafik wrote:
A while back I brought a small RFC to internals, that proposed a set of
constants that were specifically for alternative implementations to
identify themselves as such if they want to conform to the spec.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_engine_constant
There were som
