Re: [PHP-LANG] "Mission Statement"
[email protected] (Zeev Suraski)
| Newsgroups | php.lang |
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| 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 -- Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/