Mar 2, 2014
PHP 5.6.0 BETA Coming Soon!
The latest beta of PHP 5.6.0 is coming out soon. PHP 5.6.0beta1 should be out this week (hopefully Thursday March 6th).
PHP 5.6 introduces some interesting new language features and it's not all OOP syntax sugar this time!
PHP 5.6 now supports Variadic functions and Function Argument Unpacking, which can make reading a function prototype more indicative of its intent to pack/unpack arguments.
There's also a new exponent operator in the language which substitutes the old pow() function!
There's also phpdbg, a new command-line debugger for PHP. If you're a C guy/gal and used gdb, you might already have an idea of how useful this tool might be for you.
