Googles Summer of yawn.

Submitted by vlado on Wed, 2006-07-26 13:07. | | |

Googles Summer of yawn. - Google's "Summer of Code" has started and they have announced a few PHP projects. Some of them look interesting and useful. However, I am going to pick apart one in particular, that to be honest, looks neither interesting or useful: The PHP Macro Preprocessor.
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Why does the PHP Preprocessor need to be stuck in a world of #ifdefs and #includes? Instead of blindly copying what the C preprocessor does, why not focus on the languages strengths and deficiencies? The object system of PHP needs to be looked at, and see if it can be improved upon through a method of code transformation.

 [sacrificial rabbit]

I sooo totally agree with Jonnay on this. In fact it is simply like reading my own thoughts, just put it better english, , ok, nearly. But what to do about it? I don't really know, I'm afraid I chicken out from digging into the guts of php. When I last looked there it was really scary.

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