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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Types on the right or on the left
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)


> On 4 Nov 2014, at 18:33, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
>=20
>> If we used this syntax instead, which wouldn=E2=80=99t disrupt grep:
>>=20
>>    public Foo function bar();
>>=20
>> It=E2=80=99d be inconsistent with normal function declarations which =
would have to have Foo after function.
>=20
> What's "normal function" and why it would have to have "Foo" after
> function? What's wrong with "Foo function bar()"? It reads nicely (at
> least in English, where the natural word order is adjective-noun, not
> noun-adjective), it does not disrupt any searches, what exactly is =
wrong
> with it?

I suppose it=E2=80=99s alright for normal functions:

    Foo function foo() {
    }

But it=E2=80=99s rather weird for closures:

    $foo =3D Foo function () {
    };

It=E2=80=99s probably doable from a parsing perspective, but it seems =
really off to me. Having this return type at the start of the expression =
doesn=E2=80=99t make sense to me.

But this whole discussion is a little pointless given it=E2=80=99s not =
what will actually be in PHP.

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Andrea Faulds
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