Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:66009 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88650 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2013 00:02:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Feb 2013 00:02:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain cypressintegrated.com designates 173.1.104.101 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 173.1.104.101 rproxy2-b-iv.figureone.com Windows 2000 SP2+, XP SP1 (seldom 98 4.10.2222) Received: from [173.1.104.101] ([173.1.104.101:62379] helo=rproxy2-b-iv.figureone.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 28/95-61103-79214215 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:02:32 -0500 Received: from localhost ([216.220.114.66]) by rproxy2-b-iv.figureone.com (Brand New Heavy v1.0) with ASMTP id FCW49728 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:02:28 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:02:19 -0500 Reply-To: Sanford Whiteman X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <62268062.20130219190219@cypressintegrated.com> To: Levi Morrison In-Reply-To: References: <-1452447624906595030@unknownmsgid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dropping requirement for `function` keyword for methods in classes/interfaces/etc From: swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com (Sanford Whiteman) > I am something of a language guru and to me syntax is *extremely* > important. Am I of the opinion that removing the function keyword from > the class definition will help? Yes, I am. I'm missing the help. It saves 9 characters and creates a disjunction between global function syntax and function-as-method syntax? Sorry, I can't see this as anything better than neutral. > And for those who like to grep for method definitions they can keep > the keyword present. ... in their own code, not in all the code they are forced to maintain (whether that be newbie sloppy code or super-cool library code). -- S.