On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 11:09 AM Andreas Leathley <a.leath...@gmx.net> wrote:
> [...] > > About the bikeshedding: Using "..." as a symbol does make sense to me, > as variadic unpacking/variadic arguments have a similar connotation > (referring to an unknown/arbitrary amount of elements). * was also > suggested (as in "somefunction(*)" instead of "somefunction(...)"), and > I like that too - * in regex is any amount of elements (even zero), and > ? is exactly one placeholder in SQL. As many PHP developers know regex > and SQL this would make PFA code a lot easier to understand even if > someone is not that familiar with it yet. > FWIW: In this context, ? and * remind me of shell wildcards (used by glob() and fnmatch()), which makes sense too. Also, at least one person is opposed to "...". -- Guilliam Xavier
