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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Examples comparing Block Scoped RAII and Context Managers
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Tue, Dec 2, 2025, at 1:57 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:

> We're very open to tweaking the keywords.  I can see the argument for 
> "as" being a little misleading in PHP's case.  Though I'd prefer to 
> have the EXPR first and VAR second, whatever the keyword is.
>
> Another potential we thought of: Just plain =>.  It already doesn't 
> imply equals, would have no keyword breaks, and is still only 2 
> characters.
>
> using (new SomeManager() => $someResource) {
>   // ...
> }
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --Larry Garfield

Rowan (or anyone else), did you have thoughts here?  Would => be a more self-explanatory symbol to use for the context manager block?

--Larry Garfield