Hi Andi, On 1/27/07, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
s during PHP 5 where I warned that they might introduce bugs in other areas but it's hard to forsee. No one believed me because I couldn't give a concrete enough example and we had quite a few of those bugs afterwards.
Given the state of PHP5 when it was released, everyone sane should believe (I would say trust) you, even if you were the one pushing php5 final release :)
As some point the platform has to be the one that grows and not the language. So if we need to evolve it to have a different way of fetching input variables that's what we should do.
Exactly my point (again :-/), it is my goal for filter. That's also why I asked you (I still wait the answer by the way) earlier this year what are your needs about filters and what do you mean in your post, as you were saying that we did not do a good job. I, and I'm the only one in the active filter maintainers, changed my mind (more open) and I really think that we should provide a OO way to fetch the inputs. It can be type oriented (::getInteger()), variable oriented (::get($name), and/or both. But the needs are definitively here and I will do my best to push that in (a cgi-like object is one solution).
You don't see other languages change every day because of a higher level requirement. And have no doubt, PHP 6 will take a long time to truly stabilize and make consistent because there've been huge changes.
I 100% agree. No matter how much efforts are pushed into its development, I cannot imagine a first stable release in a near future, next year at best. By stable I mean a release not marked RC and something with at least a beta quality and not alpha like 5.0.0. Nobody will expect 6.0.0 to be perfect, but we should not make the same mistake again. Regards, --Pierre -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
