I hope he finds workarounds for some of PHP's more serious defects, like "pass by value or maybe reference" semantics, no user-defined types as indices (even mo

I hope he finds workarounds for some of PHP's more serious defects, like "pass by value or maybe reference" semantics, no user-defined types as indices (even most primitive types get silently mangled), and == being just blatantly wrong. Part of what makes a language pleasant to use is that it doesn't keep surprising you--stuff you'd expect to work, does.