Re: [RFC] PHP Attributes

Hi! > The proposed by you "@..." syntax just won't fit into PHP grammar, > because @ used as silence operator. Not sure why it is a problem more than << and >> being shift operators. Since you said it can't be applied to anonymous functions/classes anyway, parser with the help of AST should be able to figure out which one is meant - I don't see a case where it's ambiguous. > Attribute, syntax is taken from HHVM. I don't see a big reason to > introduce more fragmentation into PHP world. I don't think this is a good argument. It effectively means we now give our language design to Facebook Hack team - whatever they do in Hack, we then must follow, since otherwise it would be "more fragmentation". I don't think it is a good position on our side. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com