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Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 14:57:26 +0200
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To: Andreas Leathley <a.leathley@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] First-class callable syntax
From: guilliam.xavier@gmail.com (Guilliam Xavier)

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On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 11:09 AM Andreas Leathley <a.leathley@gmx.net>
wrote:

> [...]
>
> About the bikeshedding: Using "..." as a symbol does make sense to me,
> as variadic unpacking/variadic arguments have a similar connotation
> (referring to an unknown/arbitrary amount of elements). * was also
> suggested (as in "somefunction(*)" instead of "somefunction(...)"), and
> I like that too - * in regex is any amount of elements (even zero), and
> ? is exactly one placeholder in SQL. As many PHP developers know regex
> and SQL this would make PFA code a lot easier to understand even if
> someone is not that familiar with it yet.
>

FWIW: In this context, ? and * remind me of shell wildcards (used by glob()
and fnmatch()), which makes sense too.
Also, at least one person is opposed to "...".

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Guilliam Xavier

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