On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, 18:02 Larry Garfield, <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021, at 11:16 AM, Larry Garfield wrote: > > Hi folks. The vote for the Partial Function Application RFC is now > > open, and will run until 30 June. > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/partial_function_application > > > > Of particular note, a few people had asked about using ...? instead of > > ... for the variadic placeholder. In the end we decided not to explore > > that, as Nikita explained off-list it was actually more confusing, not > > less, as it would suggest "placeholder for a variadic" rather than "a > > placeholder that is variadic." Otherwise, it's just more typing. The > > syntax choices section of the RFC has been updated accordingly. > > Since some people still don't grok the use cases, I've written a blog post > to make the case for them better than a detail-oriented RFC can. > > https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/the-case-for-partials-and-pipes-in-php > > There has also been some positive Twitter chatter, as well as the level of > +1s on that post (which is, I think, the highest of any PHP post I've had > on there, ever), so I think the demand for it is definitely there in the > ecosystem. It's just not people who frequent Internals. :-/ > > I'd say there are definitely people that want to use partials. > > --Larry Garfield > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php Out of curiosity, what would it take to implement function aliasing in PHP? To enable a limited form of pipes, like `foo |> bar`. Olle
