> On 4 Nov 2014, at 18:33, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If we used this syntax instead, which wouldn’t disrupt grep:
>>
>> public Foo function bar();
>>
>> It’d be inconsistent with normal function declarations which would have to
>> have Foo after function.
>
> What's "normal function" and why it would have to have "Foo" after
> function? What's wrong with "Foo function bar()"? It reads nicely (at
> least in English, where the natural word order is adjective-noun, not
> noun-adjective), it does not disrupt any searches, what exactly is wrong
> with it?
I suppose it’s alright for normal functions:
Foo function foo() {
}
But it’s rather weird for closures:
$foo = Foo function () {
};
It’s probably doable from a parsing perspective, but it seems really off to me.
Having this return type at the start of the expression doesn’t make sense to me.
But this whole discussion is a little pointless given it’s not what will
actually be in PHP.
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