Re: [RFC] Asymmetric Visibility, v2

On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 23:51, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 7:22 AM, Rodrigo Vieira wrote: > > Will the alternative syntax on hook not even be put to a vote? > > It was, a year and a half ago when Aviz was first proposed. The preference was split, but > leaned toward the prefix-style syntax. So we went with that. I don't think we'll ever > get everyone to want the same syntax, but we're using the one that was both somewhat more > popular, and (as discussed in the RFC) arguably superior. > > As the "comments in yield from" thread has shown, *any* even slight change to > PHP's syntax will require work from static analysis tools. That's the nature of the > problem space, regardless of the syntax specifics. > > --Larry Garfield > Just to play devil’s advocate, it was also before we had property hooks who advertised itself as a way to “wrap and guard access to object properties” but we are simply ignoring their existence here. — Rob