Re: [VOTE] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change

Hi Benas, On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 11:34 PM Benas IML <benas.molis.iml@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 12:25 AM Jakob Givoni <jakob@givoni.dk> wrote: >> >> The question is now if it's reasonable at all to change something for >> 99% purely subjective reasons (no other substantial fact has been put >> forward other than the VIM argument) well past feature freeze (yes I > > > In the future, syntax with an ending delimiter might help us to not run into new parsing issues > like @@ did. > > And yes, the future DOES indeed matter. I hate when people who don't contribute to or > maintain the php-src actively try to tell otherwise. I sincerely hope you're not trying to put words in my mouth. Don't be a d*ck. > Again, in the future we might introduce a new feature that might make > attributes have more complex parts than just an argument list. In this > case, @@ or @: is only going to > f*** us up. It sounds like you want to develop a whole new language inside those attribute blocks... Not sure that's a good idea either, because, you know, as they say, the future DOES indeed matter ;-) Regards, Jakob