Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change

Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:57 PM Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Joe, > > > > From the perspective of looks alone I don't care much one way or the > > other between @@ and #[]. However, I don't find the arguments for #[] > > in this RFC very compelling, and it ignores some of the other downsides > > of #[] compared to @@ that should be highlighted. Let's go through the > > arguments from the RFC: > > > > <snipped here> > > Theodore, thanks for your comments, time, and work on the Shorter Attribute > Syntax RFC. I appreciate your feedback and I'm also of the mind where I > don't care based on looks alone. The RFC also notes the @@ issues have been > resolved by the RFC closing at the end of the month. > > My motivation for this RFC is based on 2 things: > > Firstly, the @@ syntax makes parsing harder (although not impossible) on > CLI tools such as PHPCS. Therefore IMHO internals should make the best > effort to avoid this when possible. > > Secondly, I'd like to see internals use this as a point in the future to > avoid this kind of issue where we need to vote on something yet again > instead of taking the runner up in a ranked-choice vote. Originally this > was my main motivation until I saw the issues raised by the PHPCS users. > Is this issue documented somewhere on github or on any other platform? I'd like to see the discussion and maybe participate in it. Thanks, Márcio