Was reading an article today on the new release of PHP 7. It looks like it might be a somewhat major overhaul for PRISM. I think that moving forward with this project(although I have one more planned release before I start this stuff, considering PHP 7 RC isn't even out till June) and starting to look over code, and debugging stuff to make sure it'll work on PHP 7, How ever, the big question here is backwards compatibility. Due to the fact that PHP 7 is moving to Uniform Variable Syntax, which changes how PHP interprets things like
Now this could potentially be avoided and can be made to work on both old and new versions of PHP(which might need to be done). So the main question here is, Are you planning on moving to PHP 7? Once I am able to test PRISM with php 7, I'll have an idea if anything actually needs to be recoded or if it will just work. Hopefully I will have a better idea of what needs to be done to PRISM soon.
One thing I'm kind of looking forward to, which will help greatly with the conversion to using name spacing is the new "Group Use Declarations"
I think overall PHP 7 is going to offer many great features that could potentially help with PRISM's future... including the improved performance.
https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7
https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7-2
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$obj->$properties['name']
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One thing I'm kind of looking forward to, which will help greatly with the conversion to using name spacing is the new "Group Use Declarations"
<?php
#where you will be able to do this:
use Framework\Component\{
SubComponent\ClassA,
SubComponent\ClassB as ClassC,
OtherComponent\ClassD
};
?>
https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7
https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7-2
