On 02.09.2024 at 16:51, Mike Schinkel wrote: > Generally I am one who welcomes new feature ideas, but I fear that string > literals as object properties would break a valuable assumption that all > properties must be a valid identifier. Without that assumption I fear many > things that would become more complex.
Is that so? See <https://3v4l.org/bZTFi>. > So I am sympathetic to the desire to improve the language. However I fear > this specific change would create more pain than pleasure. Better IMO to look > for less disruptive solutions to achieve the same goals. For example, if the > Enum+Attributes approach meets your needs aside from having too much > boilerplate, maybe we could enhance PHP to have less of that boilerplate? ACK Christoph
