Re: [PHP-DEV] Bugs, Features, Contributions

2013-09-12 Thread Martin Keckeis
Am 12.09.2013 14:18 schrieb "Johannes Schlüter" : > > Hi, > > there is some talk about contributing new features and roadmaps for > PHP. What is missing is talk about maintenance. > > PHP is developing really fast, if you consider the distribution we > reach. > > Let's take a look at the last

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Bob Weinand
Am 12.9.2013 um 22:44 schrieb Johannes Schlüter : > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 23:21 +0200, Bob Weinand wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I tried to widen the naming possibilities by allowing to use keywords >> as identifiers (for function names, class names, label (goto) >> names, ...) where possible. It doesn't br

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Bob Weinand
Am 12.9.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Pierre Joye : > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: >> Supporting different sets of keywords in >> different locations is pretty confusing. Imho we should add this kind of >> support only in places where a) we can support all keywords and b) it is >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] partnership issue

2013-09-12 Thread Andrea Faulds
On 12/09/2013 22:16, Robert Froslev wrote: Hello, Hi. I have found your website wiki.horde.org when searching the web on the topics related to my website theme. I'm sorry, you must be mistaken. The only wiki. here is wiki.php.net. This is also not the email address for php.net. It is the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Nikita Popov
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > I often stumbled over the annoyance of this limitation and I know many > users want it, I'm not convinced about adding it, though. > > One reason is the "where (easily) possible" part. Right now we have a > simple rule "keywords can't be

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > I tend to agree with Johannes. I tend to agree too but I never really liked this keywords restriction. > Supporting different sets of keywords in > different locations is pretty confusing. Imho we should add this kind of > support only in

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Florin, On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Florin Patan wrote: > This morning I read something that's not fun: > https://twitter.com/ircmaxell/status/376027280562073600 > > Yet another good contributor leaves this community (not the whole PHP > community) because of the way things are done her

[PHP-DEV] partnership issue

2013-09-12 Thread Robert Froslev
Hello, I have found your website wiki.horde.org when searching the web on the topics related to my website theme. I must say your site content is very good and I think we would benefit much from possible partnership - for example link exchange. This would bring more targeted traffic to our sites

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 23:21 +0200, Bob Weinand wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to widen the naming possibilities by allowing to use keywords > as identifiers (for function names, class names, label (goto) > names, ...) where possible. It doesn't break any BC. I often stumbled over the annoyance of this

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Derick, On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Daniel Basten wrote: > >> cite: "I hope this is a joke." >> >> i guess that is the stuff they where talking about. > > Not following etiquette is one of the things that annoys people. And you > just violated

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Bob Weinand wrote: > As Benjamin suggested, here the best running times of "time phpunit" in the > symfony test suite: > > With patch: > real 0m30.885s > user 0m14.713s > sys 0m2.123s > > Without patch: > real 0m31.380s > user 0m14.865s > sys 0m2.170s > > Se

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pascal Chevrel
Le 12/09/2013 16:52, Michael Wallner a écrit : Have you talked to Michael yet and see if he could work on some bugs and/or feature requests lacking developers? I'm too much of a donkey to drive PHP alone, but thank you for your confidence :) You're welcome ;) I wasn't thinking of putting y

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Michael Wallner
On 12 September 2013 16:34, Bob Weinand wrote: > As Benjamin suggested, here the best running times of "time phpunit" in the > symfony test suite: > > With patch: > real 0m30.885s > user 0m14.713s > sys 0m2.123s > > Without patch: > real 0m31.380s > user 0m14.865s > sys 0m2.170s > > Seems that i

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Michael Wallner
On 12 September 2013 13:43, Pascal Chevrel wrote: > Le 12/09/2013 04:46, Rasmus Lerdorf a écrit : > >> On 09/11/2013 05:34 PM, Florin Patan wrote: >>> >>> - lack of a clear roadmap: as I said earlier, can someone really tell >>> what's in the next two versions of php from now >> >> >> That's never

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Bob Weinand
Am 12.9.2013 um 15:06 schrieb Michael Wallner : > On 12 September 2013 14:56, Bob Weinand wrote: >> A little benchmark here: https://gist.github.com/bwoebi/6536824 >> >> Here I picked always the best from 10 times running. >> >> With patch: >> root# ./sapi/cli/php microbench.php >> Took for 1000

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
Bob, you should maybe run the testsuite for example of symfony2, it has 11k tests and runs not too long. This should be a good benchmark. Phpunit reports the execution times. greetings Benjamin On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Michael Wallner wrote: > On 12 September 2013 14:56, Bob Weinand

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Michael Wallner
On 12 September 2013 14:56, Bob Weinand wrote: > A little benchmark here: https://gist.github.com/bwoebi/6536824 > > Here I picked always the best from 10 times running. > > With patch: > root# ./sapi/cli/php microbench.php > Took for 1 iterations: 8.6687519550323 seconds > > Without patch: >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Named parameters

2013-09-12 Thread Nikita Popov
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Gustavo Lopes wrote: > On 06-09-2013 23:54, Nikita Popov wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Gustavo Lopes > >wrote: >> >>> >>> I think the correct course of action is just to drop support for extra >>> named arguments. Just add an extra array argument to t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Bob Weinand
Am 12.9.2013 um 09:10 schrieb Michael Wallner : > On 11 September 2013 23:21, Bob Weinand wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I tried to widen the naming possibilities by allowing to use keywords as >> identifiers (for function names, class names, label (goto) names, ...) where >> possible. It doesn't break

[PHP-DEV] Bugs, Features, Contributions

2013-09-12 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi, there is some talk about contributing new features and roadmaps for PHP. What is missing is talk about maintenance. PHP is developing really fast, if you consider the distribution we reach. Let's take a look at the last few years and the amount of language changes. PHP 5.2 was releases

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
Florin Patan wrote: That said, maybe after 5.6 release it would be a good time to have a meeting and talk about future PHP versions and how we get there? I can suggest Berlin as a place to do it, there's plenty of activity here, lots of startups using PHP and a pretty nice city. You see that I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pascal Chevrel
Le 12/09/2013 04:46, Rasmus Lerdorf a écrit : On 09/11/2013 05:34 PM, Florin Patan wrote: - lack of a clear roadmap: as I said earlier, can someone really tell what's in the next two versions of php from now That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we can assign tasks t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Florin Patan
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> >> That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we can >> assign tasks to. We have volunteers who work on things they need or find >> fun to work on. We can't possibly provide a solid road map two

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Florin Patan
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On 09/11/2013 05:34 PM, Florin Patan wrote: >> - lack of a clear roadmap: as I said earlier, can someone really tell >> what's in the next two versions of php from now > > That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we c

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Macedo
Why not both? The list should and will remain, but I see no issue in using the same inbox to start/reply-to a thread; it's been done, it can be done! And I don't think it's just about keeping people who like one or the other more, but rather allowing a quick read over the conversation in a threaded

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: That's never going to happen. We don't have paid developers that we can assign tasks to. We have volunteers who work on things they need or find fun to work on. We can't possibly provide a solid road map two (I assume you mean major) versions out. The conflict here is the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Seva Lapsha
Authorities don't run away. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Pascal Chevrel wrote: > e 12/09/2013 07:40, Daniel Brown a écrit : > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Seva Lapsha >> wrote: >> >>> PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for >>> it. >>> If you don't li

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Matthieu Napoli
Le 12/09/2013 07:40, Daniel Brown a écrit : On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Seva Lapsha wrote: PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for it. If you don't like how it's managed, there is an easy path: 1. Earn authority. 2. Propose a change. 3. Implement it. 4. Ma

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Florian Anderiasch
On 09/12/2013 06:43 AM, Philip Sturgeon wrote: > As for the comments about the FIG made by others, I agree with Larry > in that we're doing a pretty good job at trying to build on the > example set forward by internals. Self moderation and workflow are two > important factors to the group, and I d

Re: [PHP-DEV] Wake up

2013-09-12 Thread Pascal Chevrel
e 12/09/2013 07:40, Daniel Brown a écrit : On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Seva Lapsha wrote: PHP is a collective mind. Any dictatorship would mean a degradation for it. If you don't like how it's managed, there is an easy path: 1. Earn authority. 2. Propose a change. 3. Implement it. 4. Mai

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Michael Wallner
On 11 September 2013 23:21, Bob Weinand wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to widen the naming possibilities by allowing to use keywords as > identifiers (for function names, class names, label (goto) names, ...) where > possible. It doesn't break any BC. > > Furthermore when BC needs to be broken in futu

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Ryan McCue
Bob Weinand wrote: > I tried to widen the naming possibilities by allowing to use keywords as > identifiers (for function names, class names, label (goto) names, ...) where > possible. It doesn't break any BC. Is the token still T_LIST/T_DEFAULT given that example above, or would those be T_STRI

Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for keywords where possible

2013-09-12 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
Hey Bob, I like it very much, i flew over the patch to see what would be possible, and that includes many of the points that annoy me most of the time :-) greetings Benjamin On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Bob Weinand wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to widen the naming possibilities by allowing to