Torgny Bjers wrote:
Jochem Maas wrote:
if you haven't seen it yet and are interested in the future
of php you might be interested in the _big_ thread on php-internals
that starts with the message:
http://www.manucorp.com/archives/internals/200508/msg00398.php
IMHO every halfbaked php coder should read it ;-)
I suppose I am halfbaked. Maybe even a bit burnt and crispy on the
edges, Jochem.
:-)
Greatest news I've heard in a long time. Remove register_globals and
magic_quotes_*! Wow. Well, considering that they've been the cause for
most of the simpler PHP hacks that could have been prevented had not
register_globals been active. :P
I am not so sure that removing function aliases and making identifiers
case-sensitive is academic purity alone, though. I consider that a very
good step towards more easily managed code, that way there's only one
function, and no aliases, or case-specific variations thereof.
After reading the responses to Rasmus' post I am delighted to see that
most of the list has agreed to this as well, splendid. Some of these
were what I had expected for 5.x though, so in part I am disappointed
that they were not already removed/implemented.
the problem is BC. given that so many massive changes are scheduled for
what will become 6.0 that will entail BC breakage anyway the core guys seem
to think its a good point to break some more. I think it's sensible,
breaking BC is a dangerous thing to do and not to be taken lightly when you
have a user base as massive as that of php.
in the mean time we have a faster 'execution model' to look forward to
in 5.1 - _faster_ OO code! yippee :-)
/Torgny
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