Hi Lester, On 16 March 2015 at 08:04, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/03/15 00:16, Marco Pivetta wrote: > > Syntactic sugar won't really make things easier when adopting the > language, > > and I don't like this sort of additional cognitive load either. > > > > In short, I stand firm on my "if you can implement it in userland, don't > > implement it in the language" idea. > > Some of this Syntactic sugar would in the past have been developed in > PEAR, but the support for 'userland' solutions via that path seems to > have lost favour, with even the suggestion that PEAR should be dropped? > Perhaps if PEAR contained examples of good practice in these areas it > would help. I'd even perhaps go as far as suggesting that some of the > more exotic developments in core would benefit from up to date demo's of > their use in PEAR? > PEAR surely isn't where you'd look for new code nowadays: it's a legacy repository. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
