PHP 7

https://github.com/ryantenney/php7

by michaelkscott • 14 years ago

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bulltale2• 14 years ago

Interesting project, but can anyone elaborate on this project? The site http://code.10e.us/php7/is not reachable.

Has anyone tried this? Is it stable?

lubos• 14 years ago

seems to be dead. last commit 2 years ago.

bulltale2• 14 years ago

Ah, missed that. Too bad.

B-Scan• 14 years ago

Last code change was 2 years ago.

richo• 14 years ago

This has been dead for 2 years by the looks of it.

TazeTSchnitzel• 14 years ago

Going it alone probably doesn't help things much.

Sure, PHP (trunk) as it stands today is flawed, but it is constantly getting better. We've recently got finally for the try/except construct, we've recently obliterated Logo GUIDs (thanks to me), you can now iterate through an array of arrays and assign the values to multiple variables with the list() construct (a la Python), and it looks like we'll soon get Generators: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators#vote

Also, if we don't see a 5.5, then 6 would be next, and for that there are a lot of big changes you could make. NikiC is considering rewriting the PHP compiler to use an AST so we can have multiple-pass compilation, for instance.

PHP is slow to evolve, but in part that's a result of the PHP team trying hard to preserve backwards compatibility for well-written code.

prunebeads• 14 years ago

The guy probably learned quite a few things about how the project is structured simply by doing this, so even if it's not where it wanted to be, there was some value in doing it at least for the project initiator.

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