On 25/07/12 15:19, Lester Caine wrote:
Sherif Ramadan wrote:
... I have no problem
>with it, I use PHP every day, but as explained most PHP-developers
>will have problems and I can say that, because I've more than 20 years
>experience in that. Do you have that?
>
20 years experience in PHP? No, I believe it only ever appeared
publicly about 17 years ago.
20 years experience with developers that have problems? Yes, there's
no shortage of them.
I top you 20 years with 37 years. I was programming in Algol in 1975 (
at Warwick university ). I'm not a programmer, I'm a hardware engineer
who has to program to make systems work. I added PHP 12 years ago to
create web based applications to augment c and Pascal based
applications. Many of the concepts being added make sense only as
extensions to the core code, and don't need to be forced into general
use. Adding tools that have very specialist use should be done as
options, which we can leave out if we want to. The it needs to be
justified switching something on by default. I have no objection to
'new facilities', but only if I can also switch them off ...
Eh, what? "Switch them off"?
What on earth do you mean? "use noGenerators" and then break tons of
third-party code relying on it? Or do you think you're forced to use them?
I don't understand, sorry.
A feature's existence doesn't mean you're forced to use it. Did the
introduction of short array syntax force you to use [] instead of array()?!
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