What is new and exciting in PHP 5.3?(abcphp.com)

15 pointsby girishr17 anni fa6 comments

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What is new and exciting in PHP 5.3?

http://abcphp.com/category/Articles/what-is-new-and-exciting-in-php-5-3/

5 comments

barredo17 anni fa

The real link is this: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/what-is-new-in-php-53-for...

cosmok17 anni fa

More about PHP 5.3: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/opensource/libraryvi...,

gord17 anni fa

Link to a link - http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/what-is-new-in-php-53-for...

Now php 5.3 has lambdas, 'pharchives' :] and namespaces plus other goodness...

I wonder why they used a slash as the namespace scope clarifier - why not '::' or just '.' ?

I'm not dissing PHP, Ive used it, its handy, fast sturdy, ubiquitous.. but you feel the syntax works against you.

rossriley17 anni fa

There was a really big argument at the time, the crux of which was that since the PHP parser isn't context aware they had to use a symbol that wasn't used elsewhere. :: is used for static calls, . is used for concatenation.

So the choice ended up being between ::: and the backslash, the backslash being chosen because it is easier to type.

habibur17 anni fa

Would like to add that the other best choice single colon ":" might have been a good candidate too. But PHP 5.3 also introduced the age old goto command, and colon was assigned to for labeling goto targets.

acangiano17 anni fa

Flagged and resubmitted the original here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=536422

geuis17 anni fa

I'm just looking at php nowadays and, after having worked with it for many years, have just decided that I want server-side javascript. The new features are nice, but the language itself is still scattered and inconsistent in areas.

There's a lot of interesting work being done at http://groups.google.com/group/serverjs?hl=en and https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS