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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:00:19 +0200
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To: Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
From: jakob@givoni.dk (Jakob Givoni)

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:36 AM Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net> wrote:
>
> I have been following all the lengthy discussions on this topic hoping the list would come to consensus. And I had been hoping someone would call the following question but since no one else has here goes.
> [...]
>
> Should we not:
>
> 1. Postpone inclusion of attributes until PHP 8.1 to ensure that we get a syntax that is reasonable acceptable to large segment of stakeholders?
>

Seems prudent to me.

> 2. Optionally have an RFC to ask people to vote on disputed principles, such as "Are ending delimiters important and thus are they required for any selected syntax?"
>

+1  (I already suggested this)

> 3. Then open up the floor for more syntax proposals (that address all the accepted principles in #2) in hopes to find something generally acceptable to a larger segment of stakeholders with a goal of completing by 8.1?
>

Preferable something without square brackets :-p


But it's hard to go the decent, albeit longer, path when you can
almost smell the short term victory already.