It’s official: PHP 5.3 is out and available for download. “5.3 comes with a whole load of new syntax, closures, namespaces and, last but not least, goto. Besides the cool new syntax items, there are also two new extensions, phar and fileinfo. What is most exciting is a proper garbage collector, as this makes PHP running as a daemon (or other long running) process finally feasible.
1. Namespaces
Namespaces have been keeping the internals mailing list busy for [...]
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