Re: Give the Language a Rest motion
Steph Fox wrote:
Perhaps there could be just the one hard rule. 'If it's possible to implement it as an extension, do so.' There'd be nothing to prevent co-opting essential functionality into the core, but also nothing preventing fly-by-night technologies from having support in PHP. The biggest problem there is that it doesn't give webhost users a fair crack because changing hosts means you risk losing a package or two; and the ability to write portable applications is affected in the same way. But this isn't about the language itself any more...
Actually there is a danger in making all too many different syntax enhancing extensions public:
Language fragmentation.
At some point some of these extensions might become incompatible with eachother. It just seems to me like a syntax adding extension is a different beast to handle than one that adds new syntax from system administrators/shared hosters perspective.
regards,
Lukas
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