Point your heads up towards PHP6, leave standards but not too far. Sometimes very stupid things can be done in the quest for standards..
On Jun 7, 5:14 am, Nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
