The only "why" that I've been able to surmise is for people using PHP to scrape/interpret content from existing webpages. But I only make that assumption lookin

The only "why" that I've been able to surmise is for people using PHP to scrape/interpret content from existing webpages. But I only make that assumption looking at the itches that Jani (the lead behind the PHP v8js) has been scratching recently: http://pecl.php.net/~jani/patches/ http://pecl.php.net/~jani/patches/