On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, at 5:17 PM, Rowan Tommins wrote:
> It occurred to me recently that maybe we could make "function" and "fn"
> synonyms everywhere, i.e. make both "$double = function($x) => $x *2;"
> and "$double = fn($x) use ($x) { return $x *2; };" valid. I'm not sure
> if that's desirable, or even if there's a reason it can't be done, but
> it would mean you don't have to make a decision on this RFC...
Sara mentioned that as well. I can see the appeal, but at the same time I
foresee that leading to a question about when to use which, divergent coding
standards with different people doing it differently and different projects
eventually adopting different standards, eventually a PSR that attempts to
standardize it, probably by proposing the same "when it's a short-function of
some kind" rule, and only some projects adopt it. Basically, a mess.
Whatever we do, it should be language-consistent so that there's no bikeshed
potential.
--Larry Garfield
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