General improvements:
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The simplified password hashing API is a massive step in the right direction, after looking over the RFC they posted, they did a great job on it. And it passed unanimously into the next release.
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Generators are going to be a massive boon for people using a small amount of ram, as it's much more efficent when you want to itarate over an item, really excited to start using that! Regarding coroutines, they are intresting, but I can't currently see a use case for the, running code side by side in such as way, seems ... odd. These did pass into the next release after a vote of 24 to 1.
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Supporting lists within foreach is possible, no more redundant varables!
Thank good, god for this one! That should save me quite a bit of time and space within my codebase! This passed, 11 to 4, but using 'silent tokens' (error suppression) did not pass 10 to 2.
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Support for finally keyword is 'finally' here. You can now have a try, catch, finally statement it all it's glory. Pokemon programming here we come (for when you gotta catch 'em all!). This oddly passed with a vote of 25 to 5.
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With a vote of 12 to 2, empty() and isset() will accept arbitrary arguments, I find this almost odd, but sure if you really want to pass a function to these constructs why not!?
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Ah, that's much nicer!
- Add simplified password hashing API. (Anthony Ferrara)
- Add generators and coroutines. (Nikita Popov)
- Support list in foreach. (Laruence)
- Implemented 'finally' keyword. (Laruence)
- Drop Windows XP and 2003 support. (Pierre)
- Improve set_exception_handler while doing reset. (Laruence)
- Support constant array/string dereferencing. (Laruence)
- Add support for using empty() ... lls and other expressions. (Nikita Popov)
- Remove php_logo_guid(), php_egg_logo_guid(), php_real_logo_guid(), zend_logo_guid(). (Adnrew Faulds)
- Added boolval(). (Jille Timmermans)
- Added "Z" option to pack/unpack. (Gustavo)
- Implemented FR #60738 (Allow 'set_error_handler' to handle NULL). (Laruence, Nikita Popov)
- Added optional second argument for assert() to specify custom message. Patch by Lonny Kapelushnik (lonny@lonnylot.com). (Lars)
- Fixed bug #18556 (Engine uses locale rules to handle class names). (Stas)
- Fixed bug #61681 (Malformed grammar). (Nikita Popov, Etienne, Laruence)
- Fixed bug #61038 (unpack("a5", "str\0\0") does not work as expected). (srgoogleguy, Gustavo)
- Return previous handler when passing NULL to set_error_handler and set_exception_handler. (Nikita Popov)
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The simplified password hashing API is a massive step in the right direction, after looking over the RFC they posted, they did a great job on it. And it passed unanimously into the next release.
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Generators are going to be a massive boon for people using a small amount of ram, as it's much more efficent when you want to itarate over an item, really excited to start using that! Regarding coroutines, they are intresting, but I can't currently see a use case for the, running code side by side in such as way, seems ... odd. These did pass into the next release after a vote of 24 to 1.
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Supporting lists within foreach is possible, no more redundant varables!
<?php
php
$users = array(
array('Foo', 'Bar'),
array('Baz', 'Qux');
);
// Before
foreach ($users as $user) {
list($firstName, $lastName) = $user;
echo "First name: $firstName, last name: $lastName. ";
}
// After
foreach ($users as list($firstName, $lastName)) {
echo "First name: $firstName, last name: $lastName. ";
}
?>
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Support for finally keyword is 'finally' here. You can now have a try, catch, finally statement it all it's glory. Pokemon programming here we come (for when you gotta catch 'em all!). This oddly passed with a vote of 25 to 5.
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With a vote of 12 to 2, empty() and isset() will accept arbitrary arguments, I find this almost odd, but sure if you really want to pass a function to these constructs why not!?
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Ah, that's much nicer!