Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Short Closures

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Bob Weinand wrote: > I had this RFC in draft since some time, but delayed it due to all the ongoing PHP 7 > discussions. Also we have no master branch to merge features in until 5.4 EOL. Thus I'm > reviving this now. > > Time for the first RFC targeting PHP 7.1 (assuming PHP 8 isn't going to be the next > version ;-)): > > The short Closures RFC: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/short_closures The RFC writes: > The symbol ~> was chosen as it is a mnemonic device to help > programmers understand that the variable is being brought to a > function. I don't see how this is a mnemonic. I am also struggeling seeing the difference between -> and ~> in certain fonts. > Currently Hack has implemented shorthand anonymous functions using the > ==> symbol to define them. > Additionally, ==> in Hack has slightly different semantics, hence we > decided, it's better to not reuse that symbol What are the difference in semantics? Why not just copy the Hack semantics (and hence, then also use it's symbol)? cheers, Derick