> Le 28 juin 2020 à 00:53, G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > My perception is that most of the community finds it baffling why anyone > would be against this change. >
What baffles me, is the amount of discussion around changing the name of ONE token, whereas it is clear that a bunch of tokens (a few of them explicitly mentioned during the discussion phase of the RFC) have incomprehensible names, or worse, misleading names (T_STRING instead of T_IDENTIFIER), several of them appearing more often in error messages than T_DOUBLE_COLON (so, to be super-clear, I’m not talking about T_SL). And at this point I have still restricted my view to the issue of token name, whereas there is an obvious way to do better at relatively low cost, namely replacing the token name with a user-friendly description of the token. I really appreciate the efforts made to make PHP better; thanks for that. But I friendly suggest that, each time you are going to propose an improvement, you take first a step back and consider how your change fits in its wider context. —Claude
