On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Robert Williams <rewilli...@newtekone.com> wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2016, at 11:49, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > > I remember an argument that "function" is useful to "grep functions". > This is true, but we have tokenizer and tokenizer does better job. > e.g. It excludes functions inside comments. > > It may be time to consider simplifying things. > > > Perhaps, but I would typically be doing something like this when I’ve > opened a PHP file in a basic text editor and am trying to find where a > function is declared rather than used. The tokenizer is of no help in this > use-case. Plus, I happen to like having a consistent item to lock onto > visually — always hated missing that in languages that don’t have it. (For > the same reason, I much prefer the function’s return type at the end rather > than at the beginning of the line.) > > -- > Bob Williams > Yeah, and I would question: 1. why are you editing with a plaintext editor and searching stuff like that? Are you in a super-hurry? Seems like a 0.001% scenario 2. why do you need to search for functions in a class? Just what kind of monstrous abomination are you working on? Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
