Re: [VOTE] Uniform Variable Syntax

On 7 Jul 2014, at 15:42, Laruence <laruence@php.net> wrote: > 1. "The current patch introduces a new “write context” issue. Namely > ($foo)['bar'] = 'baz' will not behave this same was as > $foo['bar'] = > 'baz'. In the former case an undefined variable notice will be thrown > if $foo does not exist, whereas the latter does not throw a notice." > > 2. "As these changes only apply to some very rarely used syntax, the > breakage seems acceptable for PHP 6." > > > I don't think we should introduce a new thing which is not perfect or > "confused".. it looks like we fixed a mess with a new mess. > > it make me think we should : "don't fix it until it is broken” We are fixing what is broken here; the variable syntax is counter-intuitive at the moment, and they make the syntax more consistent overall. Also, parentheses in PHP are always a source of issues. I don’t think they’ll ever quite work properly unless we switch to using an AST-based parser someday. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/