On Aug 2, 2011 2:50 AM, "Hannes Landeholm" <landeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > aharvey: I'm surprised you voted no since you seemed content with the > answers you got earlier. Do you have some special objection in mind?
Sorry, I meant to send an e-mail last night explaining the -1 and completely forgot before I went to bed. I guess it may be moot now, but for the record... I've no issue with the answer that you gave to my earlier question, but I agree with Stas (and apparently Etienne): I'm not really convinced this needs to be in mainline at the moment. I don't doubt that weak references have the potential to be useful, but given this can be implemented in PECL, I'd rather revisit this once there's more data on how useful this is this the community as a whole — it's not something I've personally ever needed in PHP or even really heard anyone ask for, outside of the feature request linked in the RFC (which is about 115th on the overall list of feature requests sorted by vote, although I don't think the voting system is remotely representative anyway). If the implementation works out well there, there's no reason we can't revisit the bundling decision for 5.5 next year, but it's a lot easier to get something in than remove something later. There are a number of packages that have been promoted after getting use in PECL (json, zip and PDO spring to mind immediately), so it's a well-worn path. Adam -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
