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Reply-To: Levi Morrison <levi.morrison@datadoghq.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 21:00:10 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change RFC 0.2
From: internals@lists.php.net ("Levi Morrison via internals")

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:59 PM Levi Morrison
<levi.morrison@datadoghq.com> wrote:
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> > I agree with Theodore's points, including that this is metadata on a declaration, not a declaration itself.
>
> Is this technically true? I haven't peeked at the grammar. I suspect
> it is a declaration and not an optional piece of data on a
> declaration, like say `public`.

I meant to say "statement", e.g.
I suspect it is a statement and not an optional piece of data on a
statement, like say `public`.