> Le 31 oct. 2019 à 15:59, Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> a écrit :
>
> Of course there will always be an infinite number of logical ways to
> structure a program, but this is quite different from having two
> different syntaxes in a language that do exactly the same thing. The
> latter is confusing since it's no longer clear which syntax should be
> used. The same situation existed with the curly brace array/string
> access syntax, which was deprecated in PHP 7.4.
>
Yeah, curly brace string access syntax were deprecated in PHP 7.4, and it was
IMO an error. Last day, I reviewed an old library (PHPMarkdown), whose
algorithm (probably directly ported from the original markdown written in Perl)
was not very readable. Replacing all $string{$index} instances with
$string[$index] made it even less readable, because the conventional
distinction between string indexes and array indexes used in that library (and
in several others libraries) were lost.
Sorry for the rant. But the message is: Existence of precedent is not an
argument, because it may be a bad precedent.
—Claude
