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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:03:58 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Arrow functions / short closures
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, at 6:48 AM, Benjamin Morel wrote:
> Even though I was originally hoping for something closer to JS syntax,
> considering Nikita's summary it looks like the best contender is still
> fn(), as originally proposed.
> At least it looks like a function indeed, to the uninitiated.
> 
> So FWIW, I think that a vote for the fn() syntax only still makes sense.
> The risk with the 2 or 3 options is never being able to reach a concensus:
> is a relative majority or an absolute majority for one of the syntaxes
> acceptable, or are you required by the RFC process to get a 2/3 majority
> for this vote as well? If so, considering the discussion so far, I think
> this will be hard to achieve with 2 choices, let alone with 3.
> 
> - Ben

I don't think the wiki currently supports it, but that's exactly what ranked choice voting is for. :-)

--Larry Garfield