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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change RFC 0.2
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> On 10.08.2020 at 10:35, Derick Rethans wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, Theodore Brown wrote:
> >
> >> - Used by other language:
> >>     - This is listed as an advantage for `#[]` and `<<>>`. However, the table
> >>     fails to point out that Hack is migrating away from `<<>>` to `@Attr`.
> >
> > It can only do that because they are removing @ as the shut up operator,
> > which ain't going to happen in PHP.
> 
> If we could afford the luxury of removing the @ operator, would you
> prefer @ for attributes?

No.

cheers,
Derick

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