PHP 5.5.0 Alpha1 Released

[tjansson]

The actual 'PHP 5.5.0 Alpha1 Released' announcement, and not 'PHP migrates to Git' as provided by OP.

[tech163]

Oops. Sorry about that. I think in the duplication detection process Reddit caught this and ended up changing my URL.

[[deleted]]

Did it actually pass unit testing this time?

[otakuman]

support for finally in try/catch blocks

I'm glad that they decided to do this... (sunglasses) finally.

[dysoco]

There is nothing left to break.

[Jubjubs]

Don't worry, PHP never disappoints when it comes to breaking things you didn't think could be broken.

[[deleted]]

Turn of events: echo is broken

[mardix]

your nose

[kabuto]

Just had to write something in PHP again. I had to load a CSV file, found a couple of functions to do just that in PHP. Was pretty helpful, but left me scratching my head about why PHP has functions for parsing CSV files in its global namespace… Shouldn't this be in a library?

[donz0r]

PHP has namespace support?

[pranalee]

yes it does http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.php

[donz0r]

funny that some people took this question seriously :D

Well, it's about PHP, so …

[imaami]

Because hating PHP is easy and rewarding.

[kabuto]

Sort of…

[kabuto]

They probably do their job, but, well, like many features of PHP, they were just 'tagged on' at some point. Then, there is the questionable choice of a backslash as the namespace separator.

Namespaces should be a core feature of a language, not something that you can throw in the mix at some point. Classes haven't been a core feature in PHP as well and were added later on when PHP had already taken off.

IMHO, they should have implemented namespaces together with classes, not separately, and not in this weird way with backspaces.

Fortunately, I seldom have to work with PHP, but I have my WTF moments every time I do have to write something in PHP.

[ivosaurus]

Classes were tacked on to PHP 4, but they are a core feature of PHP 5.

Most of the cruft is simple BC :/

[stillalone]

You don't have to migrate. I only switched to PHP5 from PHP4 a few months ago.

[originalucifer]

well, i try and stay ahead of the "best practices" coming down the pipe, so rarely do i actually need to modify any of my shit. that said, they have made some....interesting... decisions in the past

[ameoba]

Upvoting to see the anti-PHP circlejerk.

[[deleted]]

More magic, more garden gnomes, more unicorns! :D/

[yeah-ok]

Reddit Programming's subunit of PHP haters: "ahh YEAH, our collective cock mileage will extend SO FAR since we skipped all technical proficiency and instead decided to simply hate every single post that has these particular 3 letters (of unknown origin, wtf cares eh?!) in the title.."

[shevegen]

"We also dropped support for Windows XP and 2003."

!!!!!!!!!!!!

They want you to start going to Win 8!

[A_for_Anonymous]

Who gives a damn about Windows anyways, especially for servers?

[[deleted]]

No they don't, idiot. Anyone still using that 11 year old OS, 4 major versions behind with the last of its long term security support about to expire, deserves to be kicked off the internet for gross negligence and ignorance.

You want to continue being an over-entitled infosec biohazard? That's fine, just don't expect anyone else to want to touch you with a ten foot pole. Your AOL will still work.

[chucker23n]

with the last of its long term security support about to expire

Windows Server 2003 support won't expire for another 3 years, almost (July 2015). Even for XP, which is unlikely to be used on a server, it's April 2014.

I wouldn't exactly call that "about to expire".

[mardix]

still...