Re: Proposal for deprecate alternate syntax(curly braces) for array and string access
| From: | Kalle Sommer Nielsen | Date: | Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:23:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal for deprecate alternate syntax(curly braces) for array and string access | ||
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Den fre. 15. mar. 2019 kl. 19.53 skrev Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>:
> Four thoughts:
>
> 1. I cannot think of *any* reason to separate them. If you want to
> make sure you are indexing a string, *do a type check*, not bake 0 cw"d1M
> {}
> into only working on strings.
> 2. While Kalle says pretty much every codebase they've seen lately
> has used
{} for indexing, I have *never* seen a codebase that
> used
> it.
Well maybe that happens to be just me, not a huge amount of usages but
there is usually some.
> 3. In any case, usage of {} can be migrated to
> [] by a style
> fixer, right?
> 4. Even if we deprecate {}, I don't think we'd be
> in any hurry to
> remove it, though with an automatic fixer this seems doable, if we
> care to do it at all.
The thing is, I just don't understand the rationale to remove this
feature, what the full gain from doing so is?
--
regards,
Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net