On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Anatol Belski <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi Anatol,
> >
> >
> > A quick question: am I right to assume that because this vote has
> > widespread impact on PHP it needs 2/3 majority per
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/voting ?
> >
> >
> > It's not totally clear that the change is covered by any of the examples
> > in the voting RFC, but I see the 64 bit project as affecting the language
> > as a whole (for better or worse!)
> >
> catching up on this now as this was delayed by the mail issues.
>
> I'm not a native speaker, however what i read here
>
> [QUOTE]
> We also need to ensure, as much as possible, that the decision isn't based
> on some arbitrary circumstances (such as a temporary marginal majority for
> a certain school of thought). For these reasons, a feature affecting the
> language itself (new syntax for example) will be considered as 'accepted'
> if it wins a 2/3 of the votes. Other RFCs require 50% + 1 votes to get
> 'accepted'.
> [/QUOTE]
>
> sounds for 50%+1, as it affects not the language itself (no syntax
> changes, etc.) but its implementation. Even in such an unusual case :)
>
> Regards
>
> Anatol
>
Changing the integer type used by the language is most certainly a language
change. "New syntax" is only given as an example of what constitutes a
language change.
Nikita