Re: [VOTE] Combined Comparison (Spaceship) Operator

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Since it's been two weeks and there are no remaining issues (aside from > the lack of a language specification patch - but that can be done later), > I'm opening voting on this RFC. > > Voting starts today (2015-02-02) and ends in two weeks' time (2015-02-16). > As this adds to the PHP language (and hence affects the PHP language > specification) a 2/3 majority is required for acceptance. > > The RFC, which contains the voting widget, can be found here: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/combined-comparison-operator > > Thanks! > I've voted -1 because I think this should be a function and not an operator. compare($a, $b) is more obvious than $a <=> $b and it's not like writing comparison functions is such a super common use case that it needs the extra brevity of an operator. A function can furthermore be used as a callback, while an operator requires a wrapping closure. Nikita