This article has spent an hour or two on the front page with no discussion. I've always wondered what that means; perhaps in this situation, it means that YC's active commenters aren't active PHP developers?<p>Regardless, I think this is a pretty cool idea. It seems like a lot of effort to emulate what's (arguably) a missing language feature, but for those of us who are stuck in PHP for one reason or another, it's an interesting development.