So, we all love the simplicity and magic that Cake gives us. It's wonderful that we've even been able to deliver these things with relative consistency and transparency across both major versions (and many minor versions) of PHP. It's these things that make Cake what it is. In order to get these things to work the way they do, we've had to pull quite a few tricks and it wasn't all very easy.
As we all know, the next major version of CakePHP will only have to worry about supporting one PHP version. This is going to open up new worlds of possibility for streamlining your code and development processes, and creating simple, pretty syntax constructs. We're currently in the exploratory phases of figuring out what some of the API constructs for Cake 2.0 might look like, and have come to somewhat of an empasse in several key areas. In these areas (and undoubtedly other similar ones down the road) taking advantage of certain functionality that would help us keep Cake simple while taking advantage of more advanced object oriented features means breaking strict mode compatibility. Now, rather than give specifics and turn this into a discussion about semantics, I've decided to pose this as a general question, which we can use as a guideline moving forward: assuming we follow the "spirit of the law" in all other areas (i.e. using proper visibility modifiers in classes, cleaning up object handling to comply with PHP5, etc.), would you consider it acceptable to break strict mode in a few key (forward-compatible) areas if it meant significantly simplifying code and/or eliminating extra work you would otherwise have to do? As a "feature", how important is absolute compliance with strict-mode standards? We may at some point set up a polling system and put the issue to an actual vote, but for now, we're just looking for opinions one way or the other, so let us know what you think. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
