Hi!

> Well, apart from perhaps leaving them with a simpler language that 
> doesn't have the inconsistencies and corner cases that currently exist 
> (and documented ad nauseum) not because of any design decision but 
> "because the parser is written that way".

If you think writing new parser gets rid of all corner cases you are in
for a big surprise. AST is not magic and parser will always be written
exactly the way it is written - so if somebody won't implement certain
feature in a consistent way, it won't be implemented in consistent way,
AST or not.
And it's a bit late to take design decisions on existing PHP language,
it seems to me.
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