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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
From: joe@joeferguson.me (Joe Ferguson)

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On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 10:11 AM Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020, Benjamin Eberlei wrote:
>
> > I think it has become clear that we need to revisit this syntax question
> > again, including the elephpant in the room of delaying this feature to
> 8.1.
> >
> > The reason is not only Joe's desire to revote on #[], but also that there
> > are now more syntax proposals such as @[] by Derick or @@ in comments by
> > Tyson (though no patch exists for it yet). At this point a lot of
> syntaxes
> > are potentially viable (except single @, please don't suggest it).
> >
> > I feel the choice between many syntaxes is 80% subjective, 20% objective
> > facts, so tensions are to be expected.
> >
> > As the author of the original RFC and patch, I hope I have some klout in
> > suggesting the following procedure (RMs would need to extend their
> approval
> > for revote to this).
>
> This seems like a sensible solution.
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>

Sounds good to me as well. I'll update this RFC to  Declined. Thanks,
everyone for the discussion and everyone who reviewed the RFC and gave
feedback on ideas and code examples.

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- Joe Ferguson
JoeFerguson.me
osmihelp.org

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