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PHP Language Specification

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2014-08-04 · latest 2023-03-30

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  1. …is part of the tricky part. https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard... https://github.com/php/php-langspec/blob/master/spec/08-conv...
    comment by acomjean · 2023-03-30 · in Wat [video] (2012)
  2. The official one is here: https://github.com/php/php-langspec It was pushed quite strongly around the time when HHVM was striving for high compatibility with PHP (they've since dropped that goal).
    comment by mappu · 2020-04-02 · in Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018)
  3. …multiple-implementation PHP language. Facebook did, even. They paid someone to write a spec: https://github.com/php/php-langspec Maybe someone will write a new PHP implementation to take that idea forward. Or maybe we'll be stuck with Zend…
    comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2017-09-18 · in The Future of HHVM
  4. FYI, both PHP and JavaScript do have a specification. PHP Specification: https://github.com/php/php-langspec/blob/master/spec/00-spec... JavaScript Specification: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
    comment by vjeux · 2016-12-31 · in Nectar: A Native JavaScript Compiler Inspired by Crystal Lang and Nim Lang