Re: [RFC][VOTE] Group Use Declarations

> Thanks for the RFC! > We discussed a little bit with the Hoa [1]'s and fruux [2]'s community and we have a question. > Why not pretending we have an array of symbols, something like: > use Foo\Bar\[Baz, Qux]; > instead of > use Foo\Bar\{Baz, Qux}; > This is a list vs. block debate. While I personally would go for > { and }, here we declare a list, so we guess the array syntax > would be more tailored. > Thoughts? Hi, This is an interesting one. During research, the [ and ] syntax was considered for a while but it quickly felt apart for the following reasons: 1. Most people considered on PHP the array construct is a very important building block and therefore we should avoid to multiplex or reuse its syntax in multiple contexts. This becomes more clear in cases involving conflict resolutions: use Foo\Bar\[Baz *as* Buz, Qux\Quaz *as* Quiz]; 2. Block syntax seemed more versatile and prone to reuse because we already have the traits conflict resolution syntax: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php#language.oop5.traits.conflict The reasoning for using commas to delimit imported entities and not ; is that current use declaration syntax is a comma separated list: use function foo\math\sin, foo\math\cos, foo\math\cosh; Hence the {..., ...} syntax seemed the most tailored to feel similar and obvious for most of the current PHP userbase, based on all experiments: use function foo\math\{ sin, cos, cosh }; use function Foo\Bar\{ A, B as Baz, C }; I hope that the given information is useful to your decision process. Good voting! Sincerely, Márcio Almada.