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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 15:17:29 +0300
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To: Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Shorter attribute syntax
From: benas.molis.iml@gmail.com (Benas IML)

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+1

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 2:56 PM Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:55 AM Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi internals,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Larry's suggestion about #[Attr] makes an important argument about allowing
> to declare attributes in code in PHP 7 in a forward compatible way that has
> not been brought up before.
>
> /** @ORM\Entity */
> #[ORM\Entity]
> class User {}
>
> This code would work on PHP 7 and 8.
>
> The #[] syntax would have about equally low breaking potential as @@. It
> would be the same syntax as Rusts, and close to C++/C# syntax.
>
> As such, instead of going through each alternative syntax one by one, with
> with each having a 2/3 requirement to overthrow the old one,
> I would be open to restart the secondary vote on Attributes syntax with
> <<>> (status quo), @@ and #[] using the same ranked voting algorithm that
> was used for the PHP 8 RM vote.
>
> @Sara @Gabriel I suppose this is something you two should be ok with (and
> Theodore of course).
>
> I would take on the work to write about the third syntax alternative then.
> The VoteRFC could just link to the three individual RFCs where each
> discusses their syntax.
>
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Theodore
> >
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> >
>

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