"Yasuo Ohgaki" wrote in message
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Hi Anthony and Bob,
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Most programming languages today have a "short form" closure or lambda
syntax
HackLang: ($x) ==> $x + 1;
C++: [](int x) -> int { return x + 1; }
Java: (int x) -> x + 1;
Python: lambda x: x+1
Ruby: lambda |x| { x + 1 }
Rust: |x| x + 1
JavaScript (ES6): x => x + 1
C#: x => x + 1
Objective C: ^(int x) { return x + 1; }
Nice summary!
The syntax may look strange at first, but proposed syntax is close enough
to
other languages. There will be no barrier for our users in the long run.
This argument is irrelevant for several reasons:
(1) I am not familiar with any of those languages, nor are many PHP users.
(2) Just because other languages have such a feature is not a good reason
for adding it into PHP.
(3) Introducing write-only (less readable or completely unreadable) code
will ALWAYS be a barrier to those who have used nothing but PHP for the last
10+ years.
As H. Abelson and G. Sussman wrote in 1984: "Programs must be written for
people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." Writing
compact code which has several functions compressed into a single line may
be clever where you come from, but it leaves new readers scratching their
heads saying "WTF!!".
As a follower of the KISS principle I always aim to write simple, readable
code, and my critics always say "It is too simple. Proper OO is supposed to
be more complex than that". The mark of genius is to achieve complex things
in a simple manner, not to achieve simple things in a complex manner.
--
Tony Marston
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