The mere thought of PHP6 scares the living bejesus out of me. I haven’t yet upgraded to PHP5 because of a slower then desired adoption rate and because I have to support legacy applications for some clients. That will all change when PHP 5.1 is released in the near future. I plan on upgrading shortly after it’s released. So for the past year and a half I’ve been thinking about how to implement PHP5 then all of a sudden at this years PHP|Works conference in Toronto, Rasmus Lerdorf shows us a PHP function written in Chinese and said PHP6 is being planned and it will completely support Unicode.
That shook me up a bit, I can’t imagine the day when I open an open source PHP script and find that I can’t read the code in it. Well, I guess some current coding is so bad I can’t read it in plain English anyways, but that’s another story. Here are some excerpts from a recent article discussing a recent meeting in Paris between core developers (Zeev, Dmitri, Andrei, Jani, Wez, Marcus, Rasmus and Derick Rethans)… Continue Reading…