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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:12:45 +0100
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To: Robert Hickman <robehickman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Arrow functions / short closures
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

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On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 09:59, Robert Hickman <robehickman@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'd just like to amplify this mention of 3rd party tooling: if we go with
> > something which requires complex lexer/parser rules, then every editor,
> > IDE, and static analysis tool will need to also work with that syntax.
> >
>
> Is this actually a problem? Don't these tools make use of existing
> parsers like 'php parser', thus the cost is lower than initially
> apparent?
>


I don't think you can generalise about "these tools" at all - for instance,
PHPStorm is written in Java, and VSCode is written in JS; I doubt they
share any parser components with each other, or with anything written in C
or PHP itself.

We're not just talking about existing tools, either, but every tool created
until the language dies.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]

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