It seems like what the PHP team really needs to do is drop backwards compatibility with PHP4+ (on the road map for 6 maybe?), clean up the OO implementation, an

It seems like what the PHP team really needs to do is drop backwards compatibility with PHP4+ (on the road map for 6 maybe?), clean up the OO implementation, and then implement closures and anonymous functions. What they need to NOT do is ridiculous things like this http://news.php.net/php.internals/41374 http://news.php.net/php.internals/41374.