It's well past noon here! April Fool yourself.
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From: "Andrew Brampton" <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 4:30 PM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] British Patch
> To all the subjects of her majesty,
>
> Continuing the fight against modern American imperialism and advancing
> British interests in the global community, we strive to naturalise the PHP
> language. To achieve this goal we offer this first patch of many, which
> brings it closer to British standards by replacing the weak dollar symbol,
> with the mighty pound symbol. So instead of the former, antiquated syntax:
>
> <?php
> $DJIA = 12279;
> echo $DJIA--;
> ?>
>
> Into the slightly understated yet functional:
>
> <?php
> £FTSE = 6324.20;
> echo £FTSE++;
> ?>
>
> As you can see this improvement makes PHP easier on the eye for all those
> loyal subjects of the crown.
>
> This patch could also be a first step for those treacherous nations who
> are
> no longer under British rule, to return to the crown.
>
> We also hope this patch can be useful to our European neighbours who can
> easily modify it to use the Euro symbol. Something Brussels will be
> pleased
> about, considering the costly conversation to the Euro in 2002.
>
> Our next British naturalisation patch will aim to fix the numerous
> spelling
> mistakes littered throughout the PHP source code and API. Colour is spelt
> with a u, not without, as in imagecolorset(), and it is "ise" not "ize" as
> in unserialize().
>
> We can accredit this fantastic idea to a late Sunday evening while
> watching
> the Queen on TV and sipping Earl Grey tea from our fine Indian china.
>
> God Save the Queen
>
> Andrew and Ben
> Loyal subjects of the crown
>
> P.S Before you reply please make note of the date.
>
>
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