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(Finally) Announcing a Specification for PHP

posted by azrael on Thursday July 31 2014, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the pretty-happy-programmers dept.

ticho writes:

The PHP language has been around for over 20 years and is clearly one of the most popular programming languages in the world. PHP is definitely the lingua-franca of the internet.

While there is extensive user-documentation, the PHP language has always been missing a language specification. That is not to say a specification hasn't been thought about or discussed. It is just that one has never really come to fruition.

And now, the entirety of the initial draft specification has been released to the world. It is hosted on a git repository at php.net and this repo will be mirrored to GitHub.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday August 01 2014, @03:50PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday August 01 2014, @03:50PM (#76422)

    a ho-hum kinda language with really, really good documentation.

    No, it's not good documentation. It's not even passable documentation. The biggest problem with the documentation is that there is not infrequently completely undocumented behavior that will affect the running of your program. And don't get me started on the people offering their "wisdom" in the comment sections on php.net: Follow any of their advice at your peril.

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