Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:111119 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 15823 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2020 15:22:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (76.75.200.58) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 22 Jul 2020 15:22:25 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:16:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 87.81.129.66 Subject: Re: The @@ is terrible, are we sure we're OK with it? From: marandall@php.net (Mark Randall) Message-ID: On 22/07/2020 13:00, Derick Rethans wrote: > I know we've voted twice on this already, but are we really sure that > the @@ syntax is a good idea? No, no we are not. We've already found one gaping hole in it, we will likely find more. Why knowingly back ourselves into a corner when there are perfectly good alternatives? Mark Randall marandall@php.net