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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:08:46 -0500
To: "php internals" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Theodore Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:36 AM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:

> What will you grep for if you want to find all places where the Route 
> attribute is used (but not some other class named Route)?

I'd go to the Route attribute class in my IDE, right click, and select "find usages."

I'll be honest, 75% of the points made in this thread seem spurious to me, regardless of which syntax they're supporting.  (FTR, I don't have an especially strong opinion either way other than marginally liking having a closing sigil.)

For the BC potential of #[], as a library author it doesn't make much difference to me.  I will likely add attribute support to Tukio soon after PHP 8 is released, but I'll just be reading from the Reflection API if available, in addition to the existing mechanisms I have in place.  Which syntax a given listener uses (<<>>, @@, @[], #[], etc.) doesn't matter at that point, only the reflection API does.  So opt-in attribute support can happen regardless of the syntax.

(I know, I'm one of the people who pointed out the BC potential of #[] previously, but at least for the use cases i can foresee it's not actually relevant.)

--Larry Garfield