Re: [RFC][VOTE] In Operator
| From: | Marco Pivetta | Date: | Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:55:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC][VOTE] In Operator | ||
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Hi Lester,
On 16 March 2015 at 08:04, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/03/15 00:16, Marco Pivetta wrote:
> > Syntactic sugar won't really make things easier when adopting the
> language,
> > and I don't like this sort of additional cognitive load either.
> >
> > In short, I stand firm on my "if you can implement it in userland, don't
> > implement it in the language" idea.
>
> Some of this Syntactic sugar would in the past have been developed in
> PEAR, but the support for 'userland' solutions via that path seems to
> have lost favour, with even the suggestion that PEAR should be dropped?
> Perhaps if PEAR contained examples of good practice in these areas it
> would help. I'd even perhaps go as far as suggesting that some of the
> more exotic developments in core would benefit from up to date demo's of
> their use in PEAR?
>
PEAR surely isn't where you'd look for new code nowadays: it's a legacy
repository.
Marco Pivetta
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