Re: RFC: Single-Expression functions

Hi Dmitriy On 22/05/2025 12:24, Dmitry Derepko wrote:

I'm aware that Larry Garfield previously proposed a similar feature several years ago, though it unfortunately didn't pass the voting stage. I would like to respectfully suggest that using "=" instead of "=>" to separate declaration and implementation might be a better approach. That looks like the weakest part of the proposition because we already have two places where inline bodies are used: the mentioned arrow functions and property hooks

public string $foo { get => 'dynamic value'; } No sense in introducing a new syntax for basically just another case of inline function body.

// oneline function handle(string $input): string = func1($input) |> func2(...)

|>            func3(...) |> func4(...);

That looks like a callable assignment like you know $f = fn ($bar) => $this->bar + $bar; class Foo {

      private $bar;

      public function bar() = $f;

} that may confuse users, another argument for => -- Anton