Hello, yes, that would create ambiguity in the parser since `#` (just like `//`) is for comments.
Best regards, Benas On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 11:03 AM Peter Bowyer <phpmailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Theodore, > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 00:55, Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax > > > Thanks for creating this RFC and for including "Comparison to other > languages" in it. A provisional +1 from me. > > Does the PHP parser prevent us from adopting #[attr]? I presume C#'s [attr] > syntax and C++'s [[attr]] are impossible due to PHP's short array syntax. > > Peter >