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>A lot of the buggy and quirky behavior PHP exhibits (at least when that behavior is unintentional) is the result of this process. A lot? Please stop spreading

>A lot of the buggy and quirky behavior PHP exhibits (at least when that behavior is unintentional) is the result of this process. A lot? Please stop spreading wrong info. In the words of an internal developer, > It does fix a few minor points with regard to variables vs. expressions, but those aren't particularly important. >"So, really, the whole thing has no direct effect on userland devs. It's an internal rewrite." https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2cc9xp/rfc_abstract_syntax_tree/cjeppzf https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2cc9xp/rfc_abstract_sy...

itafroma 12y ago
> A lot? Please stop spreading wrong info. In the words of an internal developer, You may disagree with me saying "a lot", and that's fair, but I don't think it's fair to say it's "wrong info" and NikiC's characterization that it has "no direct effect on userland devs" is disingenuous, given the RFC lists several changes to syntax and behavior: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/abstract_syntax_tree#changes_to_syntax_or_behavior https://wiki.php.net/rfc/abstract_syntax_tree#changes_to_syn...