Lukas Kahwe SmithOct 15

it is still such an interesting twist of fate how some things work out in life. I remember back when I was #PHP 5.3 RM we had a discussion which bigger feature we can still include. It was between namespaces and traits.

We chose namespaces after deciding on the blackslash, which landed me my first personal hate mail and Slashdot name references. interfaces turned out to become a major feature that I would argue also led to a way more robust component landscape ..

edit: s/interfaces/namespaces

Show threadCees-Jan Kiewiet  Oct 15
@lsmith wait we didn't have interface until 5.3? How do I not remember that!!! 😱🤯
Show threadLukas Kahwe SmithOct 15
@wyri forgetting about the darker times in life is very healthy for us :)
Show threadJohannes ✔️

@lsmith @wyri your memory is slightly off, Interfaces were in 5.0.0 with the new object model https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.0.0/Zend/zend_language_parser.y#L122

I know we kicked/blocked short array syntax quite late, which I regretted later.

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Show threadLukas Kahwe SmithOct 16
@johannes @wyri ah. of course I got namespaces and interfaces mixed up! thx for the correction
Show threadLukas Kahwe SmithOct 16
@johannes @wyri I edited the original messages with a note.