Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-19 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
On 7/19/12 1:17 AM, Ronald Chmara wrote: With PHP 6, lets start with a: Pure Object Oriented PHP OMG, did you seriously just recommend POOP? LOL, I'm gonna go die now. -- Dante D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com 972-333-4139 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubs

Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-19 Thread Kris Craig
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ronald Chmara wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Kris Craig wrote: > > I get that the first two acronyms are POOP and SHIT; however, the third > one, > > HARAH, is throwing me off. Is that a fecal reference in some other > language > > or something? > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-19 Thread Ronald Chmara
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Kris Craig wrote: > I get that the first two acronyms are POOP and SHIT; however, the third one, > HARAH, is throwing me off. Is that a fecal reference in some other language > or something? http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Hebrew I thought about maki

Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-19 Thread Kris Craig
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Andrew Faulds wrote: > Our syntax is very, very confusing for newbies. Also, procedural and OOP > programming is unnatural and unintuitive. We should use the natural LISP > braces syntax and make PHP functional, so it is much easier to write, e.g.: > > ((decl (main

Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-19 Thread Andrew Faulds
Our syntax is very, very confusing for newbies. Also, procedural and OOP programming is unnatural and unintuitive. We should use the natural LISP braces syntax and make PHP functional, so it is much easier to write, e.g.: ((decl (main (echo (add (reverse (array (1 2 3))) (string ('h 'e 'l 'l 'o '\

Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-19 Thread dukeofgaming
Now that we have Traits, lets bring in Aspects too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming Also, PHP is not necessarily evil by allowing non-OO code, but maybe we could do better at the non-OO code side of things by adding prototyped inheritance in a javascript-ish spirit to at l

Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-18 Thread Matt Wilson
I will also note that my phone cut off the part about this post not being serious. I, however, have no sense of humor. On Jul 18, 2012, at 11:17 PM, Ronald Chmara wrote: > With PHP 6, lets start with a: > Pure > Object > Oriented > PHP > > ...idea, and extend it out, so we can have a: > Stru

Re: [PHP-DEV] A new idea on PHP6.

2012-07-18 Thread Matt Wilson
I'll start off by saying that I am, personally, a great fan of OO. Pure OO languages have always tickled me just right. But I question the idea that making something pure OO makes it better. And in PHP, it wouldn't be a mere revamp of the OOP system like php5 did, it would fundamentally change