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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:04:43 +0200
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To: Benas IML <benas.molis.iml@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de>, Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
From: jakob@givoni.dk (Jakob Givoni)

Hi Benas,

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 11:34 PM Benas IML <benas.molis.iml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 12:25 AM Jakob Givoni <jakob@givoni.dk> wrote:
>>
>> The question is now if it's reasonable at all to change something for
>> 99% purely subjective reasons (no other substantial fact has been put
>> forward other than the VIM argument) well past feature freeze (yes I
>
>
> In the future, syntax with an ending delimiter might help us to not run into new parsing issues like `@@` did.
>
> And yes, the future DOES indeed matter. I hate when people who don't contribute to or maintain the php-src actively try to tell otherwise.

I sincerely hope you're not trying to put words in my mouth. Don't be a d*ck.

> Again, in the future we might introduce a new feature that might make
> attributes have more complex parts than just an argument list. In this
> case, `@@` or `@:` is only going to f*** us up.

It sounds like you want to develop a whole new language inside those
attribute blocks... Not sure that's a good idea either, because, you
know, as they say, the future DOES indeed matter ;-)

Regards,
Jakob