On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 7:00 AM Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> I know we've voted twice on this already, but are we really sure that > the @@ syntax is a good idea? > > Yes. Because we voted on it. Twice. > - It has the distinct possibility to cause further parsing issues, akin > to what ended up happening with what Nikita is addressing at > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaced_names_as_token Citation Needed. The '@' token and the T_DOUBLE_AT token come from the lexer as distinct values, where is the conflict? I'm not doubting that there is one, you're quite clever, but at the moment you're stating facts not currently in evidence. > - There is no "end symbol" to make finding occurences easier. - It is a syntax *no other language* uses. > - @ is never going to go away, so the possibility of @@ moving to @ is > also 0. > > We knew each of these points at the time of voting. This is not new information. > Please, let's do the sensible and use the Rusty #[...] syntax. > > Remoaner. (j/k, you know I love you) I'm fine with this or any syntax, but FF is 13 days away, you're going to have to give me something more substantial than "It maybe breaks something somewhere somehow". -Sara
