On 30 August 2013 08:23, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > The syntax it introduces looks as follows: > > $db->query($query, ...$params);
Somebody was going to do this, and it's going to be me. Sorry. We were doing so well. I don't like the ellipsis. I could just about deal with it for the variadic RFC, since it's at least not worlds away from C++ (and there are other precedents for it, as you noted), but it looks really weird to me as the splat operator. It looks like you're hesitant to call the function or ashamed of $params rather than unpacking something. I know there's a symbol soup issue for by-ref variadic arguments, as you mentioned in the RFC, but I think that's an unusual enough use case that * is still the better option — it doesn't break the flow of the code as much as a three character operator, and while it's no more visually intuitive than ..., it does have the advantage of being what Python and Ruby used. I'm raising this in this thread because I'm more concerned about the visual impact of it here, but obviously whatever we use as the operator for one is what we should use for the other, assuming both RFCs are accepted. Adam, who is wincing as he sends this at the likely subthread that will ensue. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
