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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:45:46 -0300
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow two words keywords
From: david.proweb@gmail.com (David Rodrigues)

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Oh, you are right! "yield from" is not common for me currently, so I really
skipped it.

In this case, is there some problem to apply it to Attribute case? "using
attribute(Attribute())" or something like that?


Atenciosamente,
David Rodrigues


Em qua., 29 de jul. de 2020 =C3=A0s 14:01, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.c=
om>
escreveu:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:50 PM David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I do not know if there is some consensus about "why not use two words as=
 a
>> single keyword" in programming language in general, but I really found a
>> few examples of it, as in SQL with "GROUP BY", for instance.
>>
>> So I question if it could be used on PHP to expand the keywords repertoi=
re
>> by mixing two words without causes BC.
>>
>> I will use the Attribute syntax-war to exemplify.
>>
>> I really prefer to create a new keyword "attr()" or "attribute()" to mak=
e
>> attributes possible. It basically uses the same function-like with
>> arguments to work. But it invariably will cause BC to old codes that use
>> attr or attribute names (eg. "function attr()").
>>
>> But, if we create a new two-words keyword like "using attr()", maybe it
>> will not cause any BC, because "function using attr()" is impossible, bu=
t
>> "using attr(X) function attr()" will do.
>>
>> I do not know if I am being high with peanuts, but maybe it could be
>> considered to this discussion and make possible new features on PHP
>> without
>> creating strange symbols like @@ or #[] that will requires that new user=
s
>> check the documentation about "what it mean", while is very hard to Goog=
le
>> symbols (so search will be "what mean double at in PHP" or "what mean
>> hashtag brackets").
>>
>>
>> Atenciosamente,
>> David Rodrigues
>>
>
> PHP does have a two word keyword: "yield from"
>
> Nikita
>

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