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

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, Benjamin Eberlei wrote: > Personally I favor #[] myself, but there has been a vote with a > substantial participation choosing @@. Overturning this democratic > outcome should require **significant** technical arguments, otherwise > this RFC would provide problematic precedent for any RFC to be > overturned by arbitrary revoting. > > The arguments the RFC brings forward don't convince me that we should > pick #[] over @@. However, one other thing just came to light where the "Shorter Syntax" RFC was unclear about: no longer supporting grouping. Changing the accepted << .. >> syntax breaks something that was accepted through "Attribute Amendments": grouping, as per https://wiki.php.net/rfc/attribute_amendments#group_statement_for_attributes The switch to @@ does now not allow for this, but we haven't spefically voted on we wanted to get rid of grouping. The Shorter Syntax RFC does talk about it in "Verbosity" (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax#verbosity), but that's not a technical reason, just opinion about readability. cheers, Derick -- PHP 7.4 Release Manager Host of PHP Internals News: https://phpinternals.news Like Xdebug? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io twitter: @derickr and @xdebug