On Fri, July 6, 2007 11:48 am, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 06.07.2007 20:44, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >>> You don't by a Porsche if you need a taxi, why would you install >>> PHP6 if >>> you don't need Unicode? >> >> Namespaces ;) > > This reason is only valid if we don't backport such things from PHP6 > to PHP5 > (5.3, 5.5 or whatever it would be), which I think we should do.
Then PHP 6 is going to be a very weird beast... It adds only the Unicode feature that a tiny niche market needs, because everything else will be back-ported to PHP 5. So the only adopters of PHP 6 will be: Users who need Unicode Users who just cannot wait for that new feature to get back-ported Masochists :-) For how long will this back-port to PHP 5 policy be in effect? The whole lifetime of PHP 6? Until PHP 7 is "stable"? Until the Unicode advocates get tired of back-porting? :-v Will users then jump from PHP 5 to 7? -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
