Regarding the Future of PHP 6

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Christopher
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Regarding the Future of PHP 6

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There has been some excitement and drama in the development of PHP. It seems that the direction being taken for Unicode support in PHP6 had taken a toll on people being able to contribute fixes and improvements to the current PHP mainline code. You can read about the details in the link below, but it sound like they may be thinking about a different, lighter solution for Unicode in PHP -- instead of changing the internals all to UTF16 which was the PHP6 plan. There are some hints about possibly having a String class in PHP or expanding mbstring.

http://schlueters.de/blog/archives/128- ... PHP-6.html

Although not everyone is happy about the process by which these changes are happening:

http://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/1689#m1689
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Re: Regarding the Future of PHP 6

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Have they actually stated a date as to when the completed version will be released? It seems PHP 6 has been publicised for years but as a project that will be waiting in the wings for years to come.

It reminds me of Gran Tourismo 5! hahahaha
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