Re: The @@ is terrible, are we sure we're OK with it?

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:40 PM Deleu <deleugyn@gmail.com> wrote: > "Terrible" is the amount of humans having their lives taken by a pandemic.. > This is at most slightly inconvenient for you. The aggressive tone in this > discussion is extremely unnecessary. > After the RFC was voted on for @@, objectively "terrible" (or bad) reasons for this patch have been found though, that can only be softened by changing token parsing for namespaces. This is not a subjective opinion. > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:00 PM Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I know we've voted twice on this already, but are we really sure that > > the @@ syntax is a good idea? > > > > - There are lots of grumbles, both on here, room 11, as well as in the > > wider community (https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/hjpu79/it_is/) > > - It has the distinct possibility to cause further parsing issues, akin > > to what ended up happening with what Nikita is addressing at > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaced_names_as_token > > - There is no "end symbol" to make finding occurences easier. > > - It is a syntax *no other language* uses. > > - @ is never going to go away, so the possibility of @@ moving to @ is > > also 0. > > > > Please, let's do the sensible and use the Rusty #[...] syntax. > > > > cheers, > > Derick > > > > -- > > PHP 7.4 Release Manager > > Host of PHP Internals News: https://phpinternals.news > > Like Xdebug? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/supportyOWo����� > > �A ��5 > > https://derickrethans.nl | > > https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io > > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > Marco Aurélio Deleu >