Re: [VOTE] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Theodore Brown wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:36 AM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > What will you grep for if you want to find all places where the Route > attribute is used (but not some other class named Route)? I'd go to the Route attribute class in my IDE, right click, and select "find usages." I'll be honest, 75% of the points made in this thread seem spurious to me, regardless of which syntax they're supporting. (FTR, I don't have an especially strong opinion either way other than marginally liking having a closing sigil.) For the BC potential of #[], as a library author it doesn't make much difference to me. I will likely add attribute support to Tukio soon after PHP 8 is released, but I'll just be reading from the Reflection API if available, in addition to the existing mechanisms I have in place. Which syntax a given listener uses (<<>>, @@, @[], #[], etc.) doesn't matter at that point, only the reflection API does. So opt-in attribute support can happen regardless of the syntax. (I know, I'm one of the people who pointed out the BC potential of #[] previously, but at least for the use cases i can foresee it's not actually relevant.) --Larry Garfield