Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:54406 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82832 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2011 15:12:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Aug 2011 15:12:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lists@rotorised.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lists@rotorised.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain rotorised.com from 203.88.115.241 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lists@rotorised.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 203.88.115.241 ironport1-mx.cbr1.mail-filtering.com.au Received: from [203.88.115.241] ([203.88.115.241:26202] helo=ironport1-mx.cbr1.mail-filtering.com.au) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 70/82-65511-D580C3E4 for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:12:33 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap8EAAkHPE6va78L/2dsb2JhbABDhEekEoFAAQEFI1UBEAsYAgIFFgsCAgkDAgECAUUGDQEHAQG1R5FLgSuEC4EQBJgJi3E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,323,1309701600"; d="scan'208";a="458065586" Received: from ju001lcs02.dfw.the-server.net.au (HELO ju001lcs02.dfw.the-server.com.au) ([175.107.191.11]) by ironport1-mta.cbr1.mail-filtering.com.au with ESMTP; 06 Aug 2011 01:12:25 +1000 Received: from [121.208.5.54] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by ju001lcs02.dfw.the-server.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QpM4T-0014Id-5s; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:12:22 +1000 Message-ID: <4E3C0857.2020303@rotorised.com> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:12:23 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Moon CC: Lazare Inepologlou , internals@lists.php.net References: <4E3AC18E.9060500@moonspot.net> In-Reply-To: <4E3AC18E.9060500@moonspot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] An implementation of a short syntax for closures From: lists@rotorised.com (Ryan McCue) Brian Moon wrote: > Is typing really the bottleneck for developers these days? I must suck > then. I spend most of my day thinking or waiting on version control, > testing and deploy applications, not typing. +1. I don't think reducing key strokes should be a goal at all, the goal should be readability above all. Having read the other responses on this topic, I have to agree that there's no need for any short syntax, so -1 on the short syntax from me. (Forgot to send this to the list; sorry for the duplicate Brian!) -- Ryan McCue