Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50637 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 98304 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2010 18:46:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Nov 2010 18:46:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=philip@roshambo.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=philip@roshambo.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain roshambo.org from 209.85.160.170 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: philip@roshambo.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.160.170 mail-gy0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.160.170] ([209.85.160.170:39173] helo=mail-gy0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 51/F3-14730-02251FC4 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:46:57 -0500 Received: by gyf2 with SMTP id 2so1542111gyf.29 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:46:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.91.66.18 with SMTP id t18mr3818455agk.191.1290883613721; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:46:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (c-76-22-32-17.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [76.22.32.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b26sm2952097anb.13.2010.11.27.10.46.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:46:53 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1290879624.7033.826.camel@guybrush> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:46:50 -0800 Cc: PHP internals list Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <61577946-B04E-4218-82A0-5157ADC96102@roshambo.org> References: <1290879624.7033.826.camel@guybrush> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johannes_Schl=FCter?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Making T_FUNCTION optional in method declarations From: philip@roshambo.org (Philip Olson) Sorry for moving offtopic, but if the PHP syntax is going to change then = we should revisit other proposals that add/change syntax. For example, I = think the short syntax for arrays was declined [from 5.3] mainly because = it introduced a new syntax at a time we wanted to preserve BC: - http://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortsyntaxforarrays Regards, Philip=