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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:46:10 +0100
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To: Marcio Almada <marcio.web2@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Ferguson <joe@joeferguson.me>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
From: petercowburn@gmail.com (Peter Cowburn)

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(Top posting because... sue me.)

I hereby propose to use @[] syntax for attributes.

No need to vote; it's clearly the best, nay only, real option.

Make it so.

P.S. Sorry for suggesting @@ earlier, I've no idea what I was thinking.
Creating new syntax is HARD!
P.P.S. <3

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 20:59, Marcio Almada <marcio.web2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:57 PM Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com=
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Joe,
> > >
> > > From the perspective of looks alone I don't care much one way or the
> > > other between @@ and #[]. However, I don't find the arguments for #[]
> > > in this RFC very compelling, and it ignores some of the other downsid=
es
> > > of #[] compared to @@ that should be highlighted. Let's go through th=
e
> > > arguments from the RFC:
> > >
> >
> > <snipped here>
> >
> > Theodore, thanks for your comments, time, and work on the Shorter
> Attribute
> > Syntax RFC. I appreciate your feedback and I'm also of the mind where I
> > don't care based on looks alone. The RFC also notes the @@ issues have
> been
> > resolved by the RFC closing at the end of the month.
> >
> > My motivation for this RFC is based on 2 things:
> >
> > Firstly, the @@ syntax makes parsing harder (although not impossible) o=
n
> > CLI tools such as PHPCS. Therefore IMHO internals should make the best
> > effort to avoid this when possible.
> >
> > Secondly, I'd like to see internals use this as a point in the future t=
o
> > avoid this kind of issue where we need to vote on something yet again
> > instead of taking the runner up in a ranked-choice vote. Originally thi=
s
> > was my main motivation until I saw the issues raised by the PHPCS users=
.
> >
>
> Is this issue documented somewhere on github or on any other platform?
> I'd like to see the discussion and maybe participate in it.
>
> Thanks,
> M=C3=A1rcio
>
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