The PHP podcast where everyone chimes in.
The PHP podcast where everyone chimes in.
February 18th, 2016
New features of PHP get added via the request for comments process. We chatting with a few RFC authors about what features they are proposing for the next major version of PHP.
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Consensus is "how does this not already exist?"
Debate about whether this is better or worse than using a goto ensues.
Discussion about whether this is the same or different to just returning null.
Some discussion around poor approaches to cryptography and random number generation including deprecation/removal of rand and srand and potential pitfalls/issues with this.
The Developer Shout-Out recognizes developers in the community for their contributions.
For this episode the panel guests, Phil, Scott, Andrea, François, and Davey nominated Paul Dragoonis for the Developer Shout-Out segment.
Thank you, Paul Dragoonis for your work on the php.net website. A $50 Amazon gift card is on its way to you.
Thank you Chris Shaw for authoring the show notes for this episode!
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