Re: [PHP-LANG] "Mission Statement"

[email protected] (Zeev Suraski)
Newsgroups php.lang
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 02:04 21/11/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:
>     Would you want to standardize a feature which works on
>     Linux/ia32, but not on Linux/Alpha?
>
>     That is reality, as far as I am concerned, and something
>     which we should not simply put aside.

You have a point there, but since we're not planning to become Java 
anywhere in the near future, I think we need to find something in the middle.
I think that documenting platform specific behavior, clearly denoting it as 
such, is acceptable.

>     Well, we will have to evaluate the impact of a particular
>     feature and come to a decision on whether it is a valid
>     behaviour which we want to continue or a mere side-effect.
>     Most things in PHP are well understood, but there are some
>     areas (like reference passing) which are neither well-
>     understood (by the users) nor well-defined.

OK (reference passing is well defined, BTW, but undoubtfully, not well 
understood :)

Zeev

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