From what I've observed, when people try to contribute things most programmers, and even most PHP users consider to be improvements, the core team seems to reje

From what I've observed, when people try to contribute things most programmers, and even most PHP users consider to be improvements, the core team seems to reject them. Array literals are the example that jumps to mind, but I know I've seen other things along the same lines. The core team has a vision for PHP that doesn't match what most of us think of as good, so few people waste their time trying to fix it.