PHP 5.3 is here!
The PHP team announced the immediate release of the much anticipated PHP 5.3 This version is a major step forward for PHP which introduces namespaces,native closures, late static bindings and optional garbage collection for cyclic references, jump label (g0to). Also a handful of new extensions have been introduced (ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo) and Windows support has [...]
Controversed namespace separator for PHP namespaces
The PHP development team decided to use the backslash (\) as namespace separator in future releases of PHP (up from 5.3) The decision wasn’t very welcomed by the community and numerous people already started basing PHP again. i feel that some of the people involved are beeing very single minded on this. I think time [...]
