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What happened to PHP6?

• leeoniya 12y ago
  most of it was rolled into 5.4. i think some of the more contentious unicode parts were dropped.
• agumonkey 12y ago
  It got a call from ECMAScript 4.
• Washuu 12y ago
  It was partly voted to skip the number 6 due to the numerous books available for sale that covered the original PHP 6 draft. This would cause confusion for people attempting to learn the new specification. Examples on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=PHP%206 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D... The vote: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6
  • aarondf 12y ago
    From the voting page: > The decimal system (or more accurately the infinite supply of numbers we have) makes it easy for us to skip a version, with plenty more left for future versions to come. Hard to argue with that!
• TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  PHP6 was supposed to be this all-singing all-dancing Unicode support release. It dragged on for years but didn't get finished due to various issues, and in 2008 they decided to just scrap it and roll what they could salvage into 5.3 Since PHP6 died, it made sense to avoid confusion and not name the new major version 6, since we'd then have two different PHP 6es. This is not unlike what happened with ECMAScript 4.
  • some_furry 12y ago
    Into 5.4, actually.
    • TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
      Ah yes, you're right of course.
  • duskwuff 12y ago
    That's funny; I used nearly the exact same phrasing to describe PHP 6 a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/comments/2qyuhc/new_rfc_for_scalar_types_in_php_7/cnavjpe https://www.reddit.com/comments/2qyuhc/new_rfc_for_scalar_ty...
    • TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
      Ah, I may have subconsciously copied the way you said it, I think I've read your comment before. Sorry about that!
  • DonHopkins 12y ago
    That's what should have happened with Perl a decade ago.
• vectorpush 12y ago
  Eloped with Windows 9.