Thought I committed it ages ago... Anyway, without further delays, the final
__halt_compiler() patch

Added array type hinting. (This patch requires full re-make)

- Cleanup foreach handling

foreash($a as $key => $val) optimization
Removed temorary array creation on each iteration.

- Remove part of the cleanup which causes a problem with unnormal code
like tests/lang/040.phpt
# However there is a memleak introduced somewhen after august 04 for such
# code now, 5.0

- Remove part of the cleanup which causes a problem with unnormal code
like tests/lang/040.phpt
# However there is a memleak introduced somewhen after august 04 for such
# code now, 5.0 and 4.3 are fine though.

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- Cleanup foreach statement

- Commit the variable fetch optimization.
- Extensions which delete global variables need to use new special function
- delete_global_variable() (I'm about to rename it) to remove them.
-

- Commit the variable fetch optimization.
- Extensions which delete global variables need to use new special function
- delete_global_variable() (I'm about to rename it) to remove them.
- Will post to internals@ or via commit messages if there's anything else.

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ZTS fix.

- Fix bug #27669 (Dmitry).
Fixes:
<?
class A
{
function hello()
{
echo "Hello World\n";

- Fix bug #27669 (Dmitry).
Fixes:
<?
class A
{
function hello()
{
echo "Hello World\n";
}
}
$y[0] = 'hello';
A::$y[0]();
?>

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- Remove all for now
# - the optimization part can be done in apc or compareable products
# - NULL can be reintroduced later when needed

Revert goto opcode

Add goto operator by popular request.

- Speed up by making null/false/true reserved word which allows to drop
an opcode (FETCH_CONSTANT) for every usage.

- Fix bug #27283 - Exceptions where the last catch() statement was sometimes
- skipped.

check writability on =& too

Clearify the different method/class flags (as discussed with Andi).

Fix __METHOD__ (noticed by Davey Sahfik)

- Improve precendence:

<?php

$obj->foo = "Blah";

if (!$obj instanceof StdClass) {
print "No";
} else {
print "Yes";
}

- Decrease precedence of instanceof so that the following is true:
php -r 'var_export((object)1 instanceof stdClass);';
Patch by Jan Lehnardt

Fix: <interface> [extends <interface> [, <ineterface>]* ]

Reinstate early-binding for classes.

Note that this is available for downwards compatibility only - and it doesn't
work if you use new features (namely, interfaces). Generally, people s

Reinstate early-binding for classes.

Note that this is available for downwards compatibility only - and it doesn't
work if you use new features (namely, interfaces). Generally, people should
declare their classes before using them, but we just didn't want hell to break
loose (c)

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Rewrote exception support. Fixes a few limitations and bugs in the old
implementation, and allows exceptions to 'fire' much earlier than before.

Instructions on how to use the new mecha

Rewrote exception support. Fixes a few limitations and bugs in the old
implementation, and allows exceptions to 'fire' much earlier than before.

Instructions on how to use the new mechanism will follow on internals@
shortly...

Note - this (most probably) breaks the current implementation of
set_exception_handler()

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Redesign the clone() feature to fix some fundamental flaws in the previous
implementation.

Using clone directly is now done using
$replica = clone $src;

Clone methods must n

Redesign the clone() feature to fix some fundamental flaws in the previous
implementation.

Using clone directly is now done using
$replica = clone $src;

Clone methods must now be declared as follows:
function __clone($that)
{
}

Clone methods in derived classes can call the __clone method of their parent
classes using parent::__clone($that)

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- Re-allow conditional class declerations. Needless to say that I also
- think it's not great coding.. Use polymorphism instead :)

- - A belated happy holidays (by two years)