On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:
> Reading over the list I don't think people "are torn about" it. There > are some detractors, sure, but there seem to be more detractors about > symbol choice (~) and lack of type declarations. Personally, I feel that without the auto import, the feature would be totally useless. But yes, more people are not happy with the ~ choice. > I disagree that `(int $x) => $x * 2` is vastly better than `fn (int > $x) => $x * 2`. It *might* be better but so much better we should > introduce backtracking into it? In my opinion that is very clear: no. > Especially because this also makes it harder to write other tools for > PHP. The issue I have with the fn() prefix is that it looks "weird" in case you are chaining multiples. And it looks like a function call, but it isn't one. fn($x) => fn($y) => fn($z) How does hack solve this? Do they have backtracking in their parser? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
