Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Operator functions

On 8 Sep 2017, at 17:41, Andrea Faulds wrote:

Hi everyone! Here's an RFC for a small, simple, self-contained feature with no backwards-compatibility breaks and which in fact doesn't even touch the language's syntax (it's 50%+1 eligible!) but which could make PHP a bit more expressive and consistent, especially with potential later features. It even has a test designed to impose minimal maintenance burden while testing a fairly large possibility space! Anyway, the RFC in question is this: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_functions Please tell me what you think and suggest any potential improvements or anything you think might have been an omission.

Yes! I have wanted this for many years. In the first programming language in which I achieved real proficiency, this was vernacular. It would make me happy to return to it in the language I now use most. An anonymous function that turns an operator into three lines looks dumb and makes me sad. Tom