On: HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster

[Crito]

I find the juxtaposition between PHP's short function names taken from C, and things like T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to be rather funny.

[e-tron → Crito]

recently(not quite) there was a talk in php internals about changing that.

read this:

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2013/09/t-paamayim-nekudotayi...

[Crito → e-tron]

Well, so long as they don't fix the parsing of octal int literals that is okay. Loosing both of my favourite offhand complaints would be rather disappointing. ;)

[userbinator → Crito]

Never seen that one, but I think it's cute.