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Post June 30th, 2009, 11:24 am

http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-06-30-1
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The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

The key features of PHP 5.3.0 include:

* Support for namespaces
* Late static binding
* Lambda Functions and Closures
* Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut "?:" and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()
* Under the hood performance improvements
* Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
* Optional mysqlnd PHP native replacement for libmysql
* Improved Windows support including VC9 and experimental X64 binaries as well as portability to other supported platforms
* More consistent float rounding
* Deprecation notices are now handled via E_DEPRECATED (part of E_ALL) instead of the E_STRICT error level
* Several enhancements to enable more flexiblity in php.ini (and ini parsing in general)
* New bundled extensions: ext/phar, ext/intl, ext/fileinfo, ext/sqlite3, ext/enchant
* Over 140 bug fixes and improvements to PHP, in particular to: ext/openssl, ext/spl and date
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Post June 30th, 2009, 11:24 am

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Post June 30th, 2009, 12:05 pm

goto

Why.

Seriously.

Why.
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Post June 30th, 2009, 12:40 pm

:lol: haha

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I like how they have this on the documentation.
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Post June 30th, 2009, 2:47 pm

Some interesting new bundled extensions, that enchant spelling library for one. :D
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Post June 30th, 2009, 2:54 pm

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Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut "?:" and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()


Umm, the ternary conditional has been in there since PHP4 I believe. It definitely isn't new as of 5.3... :scratchhead:
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Post June 30th, 2009, 3:12 pm

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Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut "?:" and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()


Umm, the ternary conditional has been in there since PHP4 I believe. It definitely isn't new as of 5.3... :scratchhead:


http://www.php.net/ternary#language.ope ... on.ternary

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Since PHP 5.3, it is possible to leave out the middle part of the ternary operator. Expression expr1 ?: expr3 returns expr1 if expr1 evaluates to TRUE, and expr3 otherwise.
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Post June 30th, 2009, 3:26 pm

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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Post June 30th, 2009, 3:35 pm

Namespaces, nice. Easier to manage replicated object names allowing the creation of domain objects and data objects. Like the packages and namespace in C# and Java.

By ref? really? In PHP? Is this a proper by ref or is this an implied by ref?

GOTO? Man they really are trying to pack everything into one language, even the dinosaurs!

Just a pity it isn't compilable and strongly typed. Yes I know, it has implied strong typing but not true strong typing.

But then you get languages that are trying to go from strong type to duck type. Silly billies! Stick to what you good at.

Recon I will download it and have a fiddle :)
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Post June 30th, 2009, 11:34 pm

Interesting...
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Post July 1st, 2009, 8:41 am

I still don't quite understand their decision to use the backslash as the namespace separator.
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Post July 1st, 2009, 9:08 am

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I still don't quite understand their decision to use the backslash as the namespace separator.


HAHAHAHAHAHA I didn't see that. Prehaps it has something to do with a path it gets placed in, kinda like src packages in Java?
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Post July 1st, 2009, 10:13 am

There was a big debate over it a few months ago when the PHP team first announced that they'd be using it. Basically the entire community was up in arms about it, and the PHP team was all "nah guys it'll be ok, shhhhh" and then just went ahead and did it anyway.
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Post July 1st, 2009, 3:57 pm

I bet if classes didn't already use :: for static methods and whatnot, they would have used that like a lot of people seemed to want.
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Post July 1st, 2009, 7:24 pm

I don't see why a simple . couldn't suffice.
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Post July 2nd, 2009, 3:43 am

Well .NET and Java get around with a . quiet fine :)
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