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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:43:19 -0500
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To: Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Attributes v2
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

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> On Mar 10, 2020, at 05:54, Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 01:02, Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net> =
wrote:
>=20
>>=20
>> I find angle brackets extremely hard to read
>>=20
>=20
>=20
> You're definitely not alone in disliking the syntax, but I think it
> actually looks quite neat. It reminds me firstly of templating =
languages
> which use {{foo}} for placeholders and/or keywords, and secondly of =
French
> quote marks, =C2=ABguillemets=C2=BB. It looks ugly in e-mails using =
variable-width
> fonts, but that's not we're going to be writing code in every day.


I quite like the relationship to Hack. Hack borrowed so much from PHP, =
and PHP, in turn, borrows back from Hack.

Are spaces allowed in the brackets? If so, maybe that helps the =
readability?


    << A1(123), A2 >>
    class C
    {
        << A3(true, 100) >>
        public function __construct()
        {
            /* ... */
        }

        << A4 >>
        public function doIt(): void
        {
            /* ... */
        }
    }


If spaces are allowed, I imagine that folks will adopt coding standards =
to aid in readability.

Cheers,
Ben

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