Re: [RFC][Discuss] Arrow Functions

On 4 Feb 2017, at 12:26, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: >> So we should instead use syntax already used for bit wise OR, and further confuse the >> situation when the function has no parameters and reusing the logical OR operator. Brilliant. > > Excuse me, good sir, but can you tell me what the & symbol > means? I > thought it meant reference but it's also bitwise and! And when we put > two of them together it is a different kind of and?!?!?! > > Maybe you can tell from the language I used but I don't think your > argument has much merit. Symbol reuse is a problem that programmers > and programming languages have been dealing with for a long time. I > trust us to be able to deal with it, should we agree to go forward > with it. > Your sarcasm is in fact not lost on me my good man, and I do appreciate it. Then surely you agree that there is no issue with function(){...} vs function() => ...being "confusing"? So, is there any argument besides "6 more characters" for *not* using the function keyword? > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >