On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <i...@tyrael.hu> wrote:
> > > 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 > ahh, I did forget to add Zeev to the list. :) Tyrael
