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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:14:46 +0100
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
Cc: Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>, 
	PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
From: phpmailinglists@gmail.com (Peter Bowyer)

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On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Peter Bowyer <phpmailinglists@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 14:59, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
>
>> I did answer that as a reply to Rowan:
>>
>> https://externals.io/message/111312#111346
>
>
> I'm with Rowan's response to you:
> https://externals.io/message/111312#111354
>
> What is the difference between mandatory parentheses giving:
>
> <<symbol>><<attribute-name>>(
>     <<symbol>><<attribute-name2>>(<<arg1>>),
>     42
> )
>
> and:
>
> <<symbol>>[<<attribute-name>>(
>     <<symbol>>[<<attribute-name2>>(<<arg1>>)],
>     42
> )]
>
> in terms of parsing, use etc?
>
> Peter
>

Anyone?

Why is the discussion fixated on [] rather than ()?

Peter

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