Hey all,
Is there interest in prohibiting whitespace around double colons in the
next major PHP version?
I was surprised to learn that PHP treats :: similar to ->, allowing double
colons like
A::
b();
Looking at the top 2,000 packages in Packagist I can't find any evidence of
people using a dou
> On 15 Feb 2021, at 12:14, Matthew Brown wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Is there interest in prohibiting whitespace around double colons in the
> next major PHP version?
>
> I was surprised to learn that PHP treats :: similar to ->, allowing double
> colons like
>
> A::
> b();
>
> Looking at the
Hey Matt.
Am 15.02.21 um 06:14 schrieb Matthew Brown:
> Hey all,
>
> Is there interest in prohibiting whitespace around double colons in the
> next major PHP version?
>
> I was surprised to learn that PHP treats :: similar to ->, allowing double
> colons like
>
> A::
> b();
>
> Looking at the
There are plenty of places where PHP doesn't allow whitespace currently.
The most comparable example is between namespace separators:
Ns \ bar();
Ns \ SOME_CONST;
are both syntax errors.
`MyClass::bar()` and `MyClass::SOME_CONST` are often used in place of
`Ns\bar()` and `Ns\SOME_CONST` because
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:53 AM Matthew Brown
wrote:
>
> There are plenty of places where PHP doesn't allow whitespace currently.
>
> The most comparable example is between namespace separators:
>
> Ns \ bar();
> Ns \ SOME_CONST;
>
That change was made very recently (8.0) and was done for technic
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 11:05, Sara Golemon wrote:
> That change was made very recently (8.0) and was done for technical
> reasons (attributes) not aesthetic ones.
>
> Personally, I agree that adding whitespace around double colon is a
> suspect move, but breaking valid code for the sake of one's
On 15/02/2021 14:52, Matthew Brown wrote:
The most comparable example is between namespace separators:
Ns \ bar();
Ns \ SOME_CONST;
are both syntax errors.
As Sara says, this only became an error in 8.0, and there was a rather
specific reason for it, but I think there is a philosophical dif
Thanks, now I realise I was probably wrong to bring this up.
I had it in my mind that "::" could never appear chained together (thinking
of constants), but it's just that I've never seen code that chains them
together – i.e. this is valid:
A::b()::c()::$d::$e = 5;
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 15:06,
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Matthew Brown wrote:
> Thanks, now I realise I was probably wrong to bring this up.
>
> I had it in my mind that "::" could never appear chained together (thinking
> of constants), but it's just that I've never seen code that chains them
> together – i.e. this is
