On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com>wrote:
> Hi! > > > Sorry for moving offtopic, but if the PHP syntax is going to change >> then we should revisit other proposals that add/change syntax. For >> example, I think the short syntax for arrays was declined [from 5.3] >> mainly because it introduced a new syntax at a time we wanted to >> preserve BC: >> > > I find it fascinating that a short time ago the short array > syntax and other like proposals were unanimously rejected with "PHP > needs no syntax sugar, everything should be explicit and verbose!" and > now it's complete reversal - everybody supports syntax sugar, adding new > complex syntax and what not. > > I personally am not sure this thing is worth doing, I never had a problem > with typing "function" but if so many people do, maybe it's OK for a major > version release. > the answer is simple: The people who usually reject the proposals with that reason are: Johannes Schlüter Derick Rethans Richard Lynch Lester Caine and you Stas :) sorry if I wrong somewhere, I've just putting this list from my memory, because I can't search in google or gmail for +1/-1, maybe it would be a good thing, to put together a little statistic from the mailing list to show things like: who are the most active in the votes, who avarage vote by person, etc. ps: I didn't want to offend anybody, so I'm sorry if I did. Tyrael
