PHP 5.3 alpha1 has been released and is ready for those who wish to participate in learning new functionality as well as testing the code and documentation. This is a big milestone for PHP as it includes the much requested namespace functionality.
In conjunction with namespaces, this release includes some new features including NOWDOCS - The single quote equivalent of HEREDOCS, Lambda functions and closures, optional cyclic garbage collection, limited GOTO (uh oh) statements and more.
It is important to note that this is an alpha release, so production use is discouraged.
I plan on downloading and playing with this new release, and I will show my results later.
For more information on this list, check out http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-08-01-1
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Shawn McCool : 28 August 2008 at 10:52 am
Fascinating! Great Find!