Re: [PHP-DEV] Mailing list moderation

2018-01-03 Thread Tony Marston
about anybody personally, applies to all. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Mailing list moderation

2018-01-03 Thread Tony Marston
ve the right to defend myself. You should focus your attention of those who make personal attacks and not those who are defending themselves. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2018-01-02 Thread Tony Marston
ave a code base that is still going strong after 15 years without using any of those optional extras that have been added to the language starting with PHP 5. You call me a trouble maker - what trouble have I made and for whom? You should learn to keep your insults to yourself. -- Tony Marsto

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2018-01-02 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:96908b43-e2b3-923a-5452-903f26838...@rhsoft.net... Am 01.01.2018 um 10:21 schrieb Tony Marston: Any attempt to make typehinting (or type enforcement as it has now become) is simply adding complications to the language which do not provide benefits to the greater PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2018-01-01 Thread Tony Marston
"Dustin Wheeler" wrote in message news:a93010e9-7e52-4144-81b8-6fb6f47d8...@ncsu.edu... On Dec 31, 2017, at 10:33 AM, "li...@rhsoft.net" <li...@rhsoft.net> wrote: Am 31.12.2017 um 11:27 schrieb Tony Marston: "Michael Morris" wrote in message

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2018-01-01 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:e425ecf3-4ef8-826d-bf4c-3c7b588e1...@rhsoft.net... Am 31.12.2017 um 11:27 schrieb Tony Marston: "Michael Morris" wrote in message news:CAEUnE0e67q2HMX8bmFjy5Mx8GMfxD=dnbswf9csuyntyn8x...@mail.gmail.com... On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Lester

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2018-01-01 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:7482b9d4-d487-8c0f-1f92-2e8fef68d...@rhsoft.net... Am 31.12.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Tony Marston: Some of us are clever enough to write code that doesn't have those types of bug in the first place. I developed my framework in PHP4 before type hints even existed, and I

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2017-12-31 Thread Tony Marston
lt? No, it does not. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2017-12-31 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:28ba9e6a-a3f2-2547-d294-f3a1710d5...@rhsoft.net... Am 30.12.2017 um 11:37 schrieb Lester Caine: On 30/12/17 09:16, Tony Marston wrote: You are missing the point. If an RFC is so badly written that someone does not understand it, or understand what benefits

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2017-12-31 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:320cb1b3-222b-2b21-6c39-8d9ea539b...@rhsoft.net... Am 30.12.2017 um 10:16 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:f48976dd-589f-e88e-37ba-38096c3a3...@rhsoft.net... You are missing the point. If an RFC is so badly written that someone does not understand

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2017-12-30 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:f48976dd-589f-e88e-37ba-38096c3a3...@rhsoft.net... Am 29.12.2017 um 09:04 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:4b55eed1-8656-ff70-e4e9-ad5e40213...@rhsoft.net... Am 29.12.2017 um 00:21 schrieb Larry Garfield: Correct. Union types I've always seen presented

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

2017-12-29 Thread Tony Marston
upposed to provide, then there is no point in up-voting it. You may contrive a use case where it provides a small benefit, but if that use case is so limited or so obscure that it does not apply to a significant number of developers then that RFC should be voted down simply because it does not provi

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Namespace-scoped declares, again

2017-12-13 Thread Tony Marston
""Michal Brzuchalski"" wrote in message news:cabdc3wrz8qu_hgsbtjgbwwct8yplxgchonee9nijkwcderu...@mail.gmail.com... 13.12.2017 11:44 "Tony Marston" <tonymars...@hotmail.com> napisal(a): ""Michal Brzuchalski"" wrote in messa

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Namespace-scoped declares, again

2017-12-13 Thread Tony Marston
ike: ? You are assuming that everybody is using PSR-4. That is a wrong assumption to make. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Namespace-scoped declares, again

2017-12-13 Thread Tony Marston
46 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> wrote: PHP as a language should not assume that someone is using Composer correctly. Or even using Composer at all. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-08 Thread Tony Marston
bloat has a detrimental effect on everybody who uses the language, and especially on the core developers who have to maintain that bloat. You stop telling me that you don't like my opinion and I will stop telling you that I don't like your opinion. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime D

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-07 Thread Tony Marston
"Alice Wonder" wrote in message news:572d0e30-7214-0842-6624-7647514b9...@librelamp.com... On 11/07/2017 02:21 AM, Tony Marston wrote: Some things are so obvious that they do not need scientific proof. Some things that appear obvious are incorrect, especially when bias enters.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-07 Thread Tony Marston
"Stephen Reay" wrote in message news:562e5c38-b46b-449d-8676-8699b59dd...@koalephant.com... On 7 Nov 2017, at 17:21, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: I was around when that happened, so I know what I'm talking about. I'm not going to get into the whole

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-07 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:748869f7-13bb-5bdd-6fec-399a33b79...@rhsoft.net... Am 06.11.2017 um 12:09 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:55fb932f-7f61-33eb-1fd9-aa425bc6f...@rhsoft.net... Am 05.11.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:d70cc49d-c397-3f09-d08d

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-06 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:55fb932f-7f61-33eb-1fd9-aa425bc6f...@rhsoft.net... Am 05.11.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:d70cc49d-c397-3f09-d08d-b79b31014...@rhsoft.net... it depends on the implementation and just beause you say so does not prove anything and even if you

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-05 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:d70cc49d-c397-3f09-d08d-b79b31014...@rhsoft.net... Am 04.11.2017 um 10:18 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:941fd347-4a17-78b6-1bd7-4a5519aa7...@rhsoft.net... Am 03.11.2017 um 11:33 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:6643d10b-8703-693c-15c2

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-04 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:941fd347-4a17-78b6-1bd7-4a5519aa7...@rhsoft.net... Am 03.11.2017 um 11:33 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:6643d10b-8703-693c-15c2-da338022e...@rhsoft.net... Am 02.11.2017 um 10:55 schrieb Tony Marston: "Kalle Sommer Nielsen" wrote in messa

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-03 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:6643d10b-8703-693c-15c2-da338022e...@rhsoft.net... Am 02.11.2017 um 10:55 schrieb Tony Marston: "Kalle Sommer Nielsen" wrote in message I fail to see how it offers "negative benefits to the vast number of programmers who are happy with the language

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-11-02 Thread Tony Marston
"Kalle Sommer Nielsen" wrote in message news:CAJW__o3QJOe6G3ybmBcoCU=fcadjzacgbktijrbm3rs8q0h...@mail.gmail.com... Hi Tony 2017-10-31 11:35 GMT+01:00 Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com>: This strikes me as being nothing more than a micro-optimisation that does no

[PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7

2017-10-31 Thread Tony Marston
it fails that test and should be rejected. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Pre-draft for PipeOp v2

2017-09-29 Thread Tony Marston
unnecessary complications that would only benefit a small minority of programmers but would be to the detriment of the majority. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-26 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:489a2ea0-7b24-fedd-e496-ee662a605...@rhsoft.net... Am 25.09.2017 um 11:41 schrieb Tony Marston: The fact that some people write "do_something" or "do_Something" or "Do_Something" or even "DO_SOMETHING" and it points to a single

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-25 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:8bc2e400-5edd-db9c-1163-ec9878e9e...@rhsoft.net... Am 24.09.2017 um 11:36 schrieb Tony Marston: If you wish to enforce case sensitivity in projects which you control then go ahead. Just don't try to enforce it on everybody else. that thread was about the PHP core

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-25 Thread Tony Marston
OK: MySQL has a switch to make table names, etc, case insensitive - but enabling that means a lot of testing to ensure that nothing else breaks. $$ I don't want to be rude about her, so maybe I ought to use a different group of clueless people, politicians perhaps ? :-) -- Tony Marston -- PHP I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-24 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:caba6370-7531-7c51-3900-434611d00...@rhsoft.net... Am 22.09.2017 um 10:21 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:064eafcb-e42f-cfeb-76f1-e2c5aec0e...@rhsoft.net... Am 19.09.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Tony Marston: If the single character "ß" represe

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-22 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:064eafcb-e42f-cfeb-76f1-e2c5aec0e...@rhsoft.net... Am 20.09.2017 um 11:30 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:098adca8-6897-929d-90e4-cc464f0e2...@rhsoft.net... Am 19.09.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Tony Marston: If the single character "ß" represe

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-20 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:098adca8-6897-929d-90e4-cc464f0e2...@rhsoft.net... Am 19.09.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Tony Marston: If the single character "ß" represents two "s" characters joined together, then the uppercase equivalent should also be a single character whi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-19 Thread Tony Marston
""Christoph M. Becker"" wrote in message news:e8590cd8-8e85-9f2f-470f-f612b2b0f...@gmx.de... On 18.09.2017 at 11:40, Tony Marston wrote: I have already acknowledged that the same word can have a different meaning in a different context, so the word "china" ha

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-18 Thread Tony Marston
"niel" wrote in message news:f75fe28a-9002-401c-f863-4462251e2...@blueyonder.co.uk... On 16/09/17 11:56, Tony Marston wrote: ""Christoph M. Becker"" wrote in message news:7f14af9e-cd8c-3a73-e487-7219a7630...@gmx.de... On 16.09.2017 at 11:16, Tony Marston w

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-16 Thread Tony Marston
""Christoph M. Becker"" wrote in message news:7f14af9e-cd8c-3a73-e487-7219a7630...@gmx.de... On 16.09.2017 at 11:16, Tony Marston wrote: There is no such thing as "Pissed with a capital 'P' means drunk" and "pissed with a lowercase 'p' means unhappy"

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-16 Thread Tony Marston
"Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170916094055.gm8...@phcomp.co.uk... On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 10:29:26AM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: People keep telling me that switching between upper and lower case for all character sets in the universe is not 100% simple because of a sm

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-16 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:b7f14ab8-feed-b3d8-293a-ac658adab...@rhsoft.net... Am 16.09.2017 um 11:36 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:bd24d73e-4999-ffd9-ce03-6b7629037...@rhsoft.net... after i switched every piece of code i write the last 15 years tpo strict-types, typhe-hints

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-16 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:bd24d73e-4999-ffd9-ce03-6b7629037...@rhsoft.net... Am 15.09.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:5fe274c1-36de-e650-fd2c-bc4f9caf3...@rhsoft.net... Am 15.09.2017 um 11:25 schrieb Tony Marston: You are missing a third option - Microsoft languages

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-16 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:ba7ed73b-8547-2029-7344-6705a70c6...@rhsoft.net... Am 15.09.2017 um 16:38 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:8bbcc1fc-0d13-27d4-a04f-0a5ebda4c...@rhsoft.net... Am 15.09.2017 um 11:12 schrieb Tony Marston: I am not asking the world to slow down because I am

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-16 Thread Tony Marston
"Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:a7ffce81-74e5-47d0-9ebf-9bdc90e2e...@gmail.com... On 14 September 2017 10:23:48 BST, Tony Marston Would this problem disappear by using UTF8 instead of the Turkish character set? If so then ten no other solution would be required. No, the p

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:5fe274c1-36de-e650-fd2c-bc4f9caf3...@rhsoft.net... Am 15.09.2017 um 11:25 schrieb Tony Marston: You are missing a third option - Microsoft languages are case-preserving. This is where the IDE ensures that every use of a word is automatically switched to the case used

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Lester Caine" wrote in message news:55603872-e832-65ea-25b6-48e01074a...@lsces.co.uk... On 15/09/17 10:02, Tony Marston wrote: Why is it not possible to identify a single upper and lower case variant for every character in every character set? Can't find the right unicode sta

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Lester Caine" wrote in message news:d97cd2e5-bd5b-4c9f-2c20-107560d5a...@lsces.co.uk... On 15/09/17 12:13, Tony Marston wrote: My argument is that far too many people have become used to case insensitive software, and to remove this "feature" for no other reason than the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:8bbcc1fc-0d13-27d4-a04f-0a5ebda4c...@rhsoft.net... Am 15.09.2017 um 11:12 schrieb Tony Marston: I am not asking the world to slow down because I am too lazy to change. I am arguing that case insensitive software has been around for many decades, and for some people

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170915093457.gi8...@phcomp.co.uk... On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:51:53AM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: >Iike how you map lower -> upper depends on how you encode characters. Then use a single UNICODE character set where every character h

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170915092114.gh8...@phcomp.co.uk... On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:04:51AM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: >The light bulb was invented by an English man (Joseph Swan), the >television by a >Scott (John Logie Baird); so should the Brits and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Andrey Andreev" wrote in message news:CAPhkiZxdVwiEDOW9XZfcADV+o1UC=sg_pc2nw7nqu1w_gv8...@mail.gmail.com... Hi again, On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: "Andrey Andreev" wrote in message news:CAPhkiZyXgxi-7vWdqA2hxn

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Andrey Andreev" wrote in message news:CAPhkiZyXgxi-7vWdqA2hxni9SvycuN_pWOOM8un8mUo5qJ=0...@mail.gmail.com... Hi, On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: Far better that that problem is taken away from the file system (which should b

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
me if user-defined constants could only ever be in upper case as that would remove any possible confusion between 'foo' and 'Foo'. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Daniel Morris" wrote in message news:1505397937.4137791.1106049000.16b88...@webmail.messagingengine.com... On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, at 02:48 PM, Tony Marston wrote: Because the English-speaking world invented both computers and the languages used to program them. It was a German tha

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170914135519.gw8...@phcomp.co.uk... On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:48:06PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: "Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:7394e3ce-b05a-474e-8ab5-a651fdd35...@gmail.com... > >On 14 September 2017 13:59:20 BS

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170914134603.gs8...@phcomp.co.uk... On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:36:27PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: ""Christoph M. Becker"" wrote in message news:98ab178e-b999-7e36-5ff5-7b8c28fe0...@gmx.de... > >On 14.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-15 Thread Tony Marston
"Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170914133846.gq8...@phcomp.co.uk... On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:16:47PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: A minor detail. Windows followed all the previous OSes which I had used in being case insensitive, which makes unix the odd one ou

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Tony Marston
"Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:7394e3ce-b05a-474e-8ab5-a651fdd35...@gmail.com... On 14 September 2017 13:59:20 BST, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: Why should the English-speaking world be forced to suffer just because some minor languages cannot han

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Tony Marston
""Christoph M. Becker"" wrote in message news:98ab178e-b999-7e36-5ff5-7b8c28fe0...@gmx.de... On 14.09.2017 at 14:59, Tony Marston wrote: Introducing case sensitivity into what is mostly a case-insensitive world just for the convenience of a few programmers I do not consi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Tony Marston
"Lester Caine" wrote in message news:20b8b6fa-ec81-eba9-d33b-b54b815e9...@lsces.co.uk... On 14/09/17 10:20, Tony Marston wrote: Then unix came along and FUBAR'd everything. Any advantages of case sensitive systems are ALWAYS outweighed by their disadvantages. Unix predat

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Tony Marston
"Daniel Morris" wrote in message news:1505382004.4078127.1105791680.3a06c...@webmail.messagingengine.com... On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, at 10:20 AM, Tony Marston wrote: If the first programming languages in the first computers were case insensitive, then that should be the standard.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Tony Marston
""Tony Marston"" wrote in message news:09.43.19300.8e659...@pb1.pair.com... "Levi Morrison" wrote in message news:cafmt4nrc43y-nl_v85qt7jgv1ohm0y4kexhb4e3mi1ejhj0...@mail.gmail.com... On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotma

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-14 Thread Tony Marston
"Sara Golemon" wrote in message news:CAESVnVp6OKB64WuO9iKEP=l9-qrrfjs+kcoekykulruff-r...@mail.gmail.com... On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: People who think that case sensitive software is cool are deluding themselves. When I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-13 Thread Tony Marston
"Ryan Pallas" wrote in message news:caobuzdtmhxq285hwmc3x9th2rj9d7ty3vnhnpcbzdceppch...@mail.gmail.com... On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: You seem to forget that autoloading is an option, not a requirement. I don't use auto

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-13 Thread Tony Marston
"Levi Morrison" wrote in message news:cafmt4nrc43y-nl_v85qt7jgv1ohm0y4kexhb4e3mi1ejhj0...@mail.gmail.com... On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: People who think that case sensitive software is cool are deluding themselves. When I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-13 Thread Tony Marston
did not understand the ramifications of their choice. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Match expression

2017-09-10 Thread Tony Marston
for example who is now complaining about issues with the switch statement. If what you want to achieve can be done better with a series of if/elseif statements than the switch statement, then why can't you use if/elseif instead of making the language more complicated? -- Tony Marston -- PHP

[PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Match expression

2017-09-10 Thread Tony Marston
eived problem with it. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] A validator module for PHP7

2017-09-09 Thread Tony Marston
ed. Do not waste time by trying to add into core what should be done in userland code. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] A validator module for PHP7

2017-09-07 Thread Tony Marston
ing from my implementation. If there are any developers out there who think that secondary validation can be automated I can only say "dream on". -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Allow default value in list() syntax

2017-08-11 Thread Tony Marston
ike this exists in another language is no reason to add it to PHP. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] php.net website

2017-07-21 Thread Tony Marston
Nothing on that website can possibly be classed as "sensitive" so what would be the point? -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] array coalesce operator concept

2017-07-13 Thread Tony Marston
s implemented then I'm afraid that code will look too much like a bunch of hieroglyphics and become far less readable. Just my 2 cents worth. -- Tony Marston Em 11 de jul de 2017 12:15 PM, "Mark Shust" <m...@shust.com> escreveu: Hello, I wanted to garnish feedback on a RFC

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-06 Thread Tony Marston
"Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:3351770b-c53e-4062-a91a-d3aa7439f...@gmail.com... On 5 June 2017 09:14:47 BST, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: Seriously, can you explain in words of one syllable the precise benefits of such a consistency? I will try:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-06 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:a6f250ec-c72a-0522-cbf0-2c7b29ed9...@rhsoft.net... Am 05.06.2017 um 10:14 schrieb Tony Marston: wrote in message news:3cfc0130-e530-64ed-36e8-372b04481...@rhsoft.net... Am 04.06.2017 um 11:10 schrieb Tony Marston: If there was never a standard to begin

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-05 Thread Tony Marston
wrote in message news:3cfc0130-e530-64ed-36e8-372b04481...@rhsoft.net... Am 04.06.2017 um 11:10 schrieb Tony Marston: If there was never a standard to begin with then there should be proper justification for introducing one now, and I'm afraid that "to be consistent" is not a vali

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-04 Thread Tony Marston
""Steven Hilder"" wrote in message news:op.y09fz0b4twp9n2@charlie... Tony, On 30 May 2017 11:21:38 +0300, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: they should not be forced to change just because some nerd has made a unilateral decision which is way above his

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-03 Thread Tony Marston
ction of alternatives, but that does not give anyone the right to now say that it has become the standard and should be enforced. That strikes me as being dictatorial and authoritarian, as well as requiring large amounts of effort without offering any tangible benefits. I'm "consistency"

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-03 Thread Tony Marston
"Dan Ackroyd" wrote in message news:ca+kxmutdqv4pg7yqq10p2vfdu4cyv0cwe1d7xwbvcio44pt...@mail.gmail.com... On 2 June 2017 at 08:56, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: I object to some young nerd arriving on the scene Please don't make derogatory comments. A m

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-02 Thread Tony Marston
"Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:41f2b884-5db7-4691-b540-97b0daeaa...@gmail.com... On 1 June 2017 10:16:16 BST, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: "Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:cef783bb-8e1f-4a20-9cc6-1364a122b...@gmail.com... On 31 M

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-06-01 Thread Tony Marston
"Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:cef783bb-8e1f-4a20-9cc6-1364a122b...@gmail.com... On 31 May 2017 10:26:06 BST, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: wrote in message news:86dba466-a764-522b-6990-39fd7668a...@fleshgrinder.com... I should point out

Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core

2017-05-31 Thread Tony Marston
and lower case, so an upper case character was used instead of an underscore. That limitation of the size of names no longer exists in any modern software, so the continued use of CamelCase is out of habit and not necessity. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Class Naming in Core

2017-05-31 Thread Tony Marston
at case we can and should ignore them, but in this case we actually already have a policy, it is just incomplete and I am asking to complete it. ;) Who determined that the existing policy is incomplete? -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, v

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Class Naming in Core

2017-05-30 Thread Tony Marston
"Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:dc66f890-a033-4efa-8f2b-cb365c8a4...@gmail.com... On 30 May 2017 09:21:38 BST, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: Different projects/teams/organisations are free to use whatever naming convention they like, be it snake

[PHP-DEV] Re: Class Naming in Core

2017-05-30 Thread Tony Marston
not require any sort of solution. There are more important changes which can be made to the language other than changing it to comply with someone's personal preferences, so this ridiculous idea should be kicked into the long grass. Just my personal opinion. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces in Core

2017-02-07 Thread Tony Marston
OT enough justification. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces in Core

2017-02-07 Thread Tony Marston
. However, it should be a very conscious choice and none that is taken lightly: meaning rules! Introducing a new rule which breaks code that has been running happily for the past 15 years sounds like a bad idea to me. VERY bad. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Deve

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC][Discuss] Arrow Functions

2017-02-05 Thread Tony Marston
find out what it means. Those who want a language with hieroglyphic syntax should go back to Perl, but please leave PHP alone! Anybody who is in favour of such a bad move deserves to have their keyboard confiscated and to be sent to bed without any supper. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PH

Re: [PHP-DEV] Not autoloading functions

2017-01-30 Thread Tony Marston
les that I have read since 2002) to put each function into its own file. Autoloading classes might be practical and easily implemented, but autoloading functions is a can of worms, especially when you throw in namespaces. I neither need nor want it in my code. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Inter

Re: [PHP-DEV] Not autoloading functions

2017-01-30 Thread Tony Marston
I actually group my functions together in three files, not one. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Not autoloading functions

2017-01-29 Thread Tony Marston
m stepping through code with the debugger in my IDE it shows each file of a separate tab, and being forced to jump around from one tab to another would drive me crazy. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.2

2016-12-11 Thread Tony Marston
"Nikita Popov" wrote in message news:caf+90c91spfohitjgpwtevzt_wyk+htx4-tantmsshhctqq...@mail.gmail.com... On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: "Nikita Popov" wrote in message news:CAF+90c8Wox0wadAVPsP83er= g9jbw__26ybwofa

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] User defined session serializer

2016-12-07 Thread Tony Marston
are there? I do not see the point in this RFC. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.2

2016-11-19 Thread Tony Marston
t nothing can be changed. I can imagine lots of people reading from $errorcontext, but how many actually write? I certainly don't. -- Tony Marston -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-13 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 12:34 PM >To: Tony Marston >Cc: Sherif Ramadan ; Stanislav Malyshev ; internals@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle > >On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotma

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-12 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 8:32 PM >To: Tony Marston ; Stanislav Malyshev ; internals@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle > > >On 09/11/2016 10:47 AM, Tony Marston wrote: >> Sent: Saturday, September 10,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-12 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 11:44 AM >To: Tony Marston >Cc: Stanislav Malyshev ; internals@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle > >On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com>

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-11 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 7:47 PM >To: Tony Marston ; internals@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle >Hi! > >> You seem to think that any opinion which differs from yours is wrong, >> and you try to dism

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-11 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 10:08 AM >To: Tony Marston >Cc: PHP Internals >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle > >2016. szept. 9. 10:44 ezt írta ("Tony Marston" <tonymars...@hotmail.com>): >> >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-10 Thread Tony Marston
"Ferenc Kovacs" wrote in message news:CAH-PCH5gu6Fz2wQU+n0J7MEGj9=wqR_UmxOd1BhQWriJ=2j...@mail.gmail.com... 2016. szept. 9. 10:44 ezt írta ("Tony Marston" <tonymars...@hotmail.com>): Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 9:35 AM >To: Tony Marston >Cc: PHP Intern

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-09 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 12:55 AM >To: Tony Marston ; internals@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle >Hi! > >> There should be a rule that nothing can be deprecated unless there is a >> viable, stable,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-09 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 1:44 PM >To: Tony Marston >Cc: PHP internals >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle > >On Sep 8, 2016 3:05 PM, "Tony Marston" <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: &g

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-09 Thread Tony Marston
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 9:15 AM >To: Tony Marston >Cc: PHP Internals >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle > > >On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >"Fere

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-08 Thread Tony Marston
"Pierre Joye" wrote in message news:caezptu4twuap1xjx+z_n+sgj1ujptyn8pj5xuvmjei2dke0...@mail.gmail.com... hi Tony, On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: "Pierre Joye" wrote in message news:CAEZPtU6aHYb9HsNXbXWp9

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