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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:49:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Vote] Partial Function Application
From: internals@lists.php.net ("Björn Larsson via internals")

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Den 2021-06-28 kl. 16:52, skrev Nikita Popov:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:26 PM Björn Larsson 
> <bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com <mailto:bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Would you look on this feature in a different light if the above
>     concerns about strict types and nullsafe calls could be clarified /
>     solved? Or is it about the implementation with it's complexity and
>     tricky edge cases?
>
>
> These were just some notes on implementation details, they don't 
> really impact my overall opinion of the RFC. I should also say that 
> I'm not strongly opposed here, I'm just not convinced this is 
> worthwhile :) The complexity of the feature would be rather easy to 
> overlook if I felt the functionality was important.
>
>     I myself think one should take into account that this is a feature
>     that would make PHP stand out even more. Not being a follower of
>     other languages here :-)
>
>
> Heh, it's the other way around for me: This just makes me more 
> apprehensive. Is there some special property of PHP that makes this 
> feature more relevant to us than other languages? All other mainstream 
> languages do well without this feature, so why do we need it?
>
> Regards,
> Nikita

Well, I think the weak spot in the RFC is the motivation why do we need it.

OTOH, Larry posted the "The case for partials and pipes in PHP":
- 
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/the-case-for-partials-and-pipes-in-php

Two things caught my eye there, namely the Health check & HTTP pipeline
and also the Scalar thing. Think it would have been good if these had been
part of the discussion phase and also highlighted a little in the RFC 
itself.

So do you think these are good motivations on why we need it?

Regards //Björn L

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