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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 10:23:17 -0500
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Cc: internals <internals@lists.php.net>
To: Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Shorter attribute syntax
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

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> On Jun 3, 2020, at 18:54, Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hi internals,
>=20
> I discussed the syntax for attributes further with Benjamin, Martin,
> and several other internals developers off-list, and with their
> feedback completed an RFC proposing to use the shorter `@@` syntax
> instead of `<<>>` for attributes in PHP 8.
>=20
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax
>=20
> The goal is not to bikeshed over subjective syntax preferences,
> but to address several concrete shortcomings related to verbosity,
> nested attributes, confusion with generics and other tokens, and
> dissimilarity to other common languages.


After reading the RFC, I think I=E2=80=99m a +1 on the proposed `@@` =
syntax.

Glancing at the example code in the RFC, I think this improves =
readability (at least to my eyes).

Cheers,
Ben



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