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by cschneid 6346 days ago
Is the PHP community open to refactorings of the code? Do they have the tests in place to make that possible?
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ovi256 6345 days ago
The PHP community is dead. The number of recent innovative libraries/components/technologies implemented in PHP (0) confirms it. The Dead Sea Effect (http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...) only made it worse.
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tptacek 6346 days ago
Why would they want to refactor their lexer? They're hard to get right in the first place.
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cschneid 6346 days ago
Mostly, I'm curious about my second question. What's the state of testing the core of PHP? I'm totally unfamiliar with the implementation.

I understand that it may be dumb to refactor the lexer, but it gets less dumb if it's supported by hundreds of tests, and far more dumb if it's based on testing over time.

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