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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:55:55 +0100
To: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>,=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Larsson?= <bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Short Closures
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 24 September 2015 19:21:20 BST, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How does one then address that this RFC only covers a subset of
>> Hacklang functionality when having the same operator?
>
>Why one should address it? PHP is a different language, and we are
>under
>no obligation to completely match functionality of any other language.

Well, if the only reason for selecting that operator was to match Hack, it would be odd to take its meaning in a different direction.

Other reasons have been given, though, and the functionality is similar enough, so I don't think it's a big problem myself, but I can see the logic of questioning it.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]