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To: Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Discuss] Arrow Functions
From: php-lists@koalephant.com (Stephen Reay)



On 4 Feb 2017, at 12:26, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:

>> So we should instead use syntax already used for bit wise OR, and further=
 confuse the situation when the function has no parameters and reusing the l=
ogical OR operator. Brilliant.
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> Excuse me, good sir, but can you tell me what the `&` symbol means? I
> thought it meant reference but it's also bitwise and! And when we put
> two of them together it is a different kind of and?!?!?!
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> Maybe you can tell from the language I used but I don't think your
> argument has much merit. Symbol reuse is a problem that programmers
> and programming languages have been dealing with for a long time. I
> trust us to be able to deal with it, should we agree to go forward
> with it.
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Your sarcasm is in fact not lost on me my good man, and I do appreciate it.

Then surely you agree that there is no issue with function(){...} vs functio=
n() =3D> ...being "confusing"?

So, is there any argument besides "6 more characters" for *not* using the fu=
nction keyword?

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