On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:48 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals, > > I'd like to present an RFC for a first-class callable syntax, which is > intended as a simpler alternative to the partial function application (PFA) > proposal: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/first_class_callable_syntax > > See the Rationale section for details on how this relates to PFA. Over the > past week, we've had a lot of discussions on how exactly PFA is supposed to > work (most of them OTR), and while we seem to have a tentative consensus on > the correct model to use (which does not match the current RFC), it's clear > that this feature has turned out more complicated than originally > anticipated. Joe (who provided the implementation for the PFA RFC) is also > concerned about the implementation complexity that the final model would > require. > > At least I personally was mainly interested in PFA because it provides a > first-class callable syntax as a side-effect. This RFC goes back to > providing *just* that. The syntax is forward-compatible with a future PFA > proposal though. > > Regards, > Nikita > I've updated the RFC to forbid combination with the nullsafe operator, as well as explicitly mention strict types behavior, as these came up in the PFA discussion. I plan to put up this RFC for voting in the event that the PFA proposal does not get accepted. Regards, Nikita
