On 4 Feb 2017, at 12:26, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:
>> So we should instead use syntax already used for bit wise OR, and further
>> confuse the situation when the function has no parameters and reusing the
>> logical OR operator. Brilliant.
>
> Excuse me, good sir, but can you tell me what the `&` symbol means? I
> thought it meant reference but it's also bitwise and! And when we put
> two of them together it is a different kind of and?!?!?!
>
> Maybe you can tell from the language I used but I don't think your
> argument has much merit. Symbol reuse is a problem that programmers
> and programming languages have been dealing with for a long time. I
> trust us to be able to deal with it, should we agree to go forward
> with it.
>
Your sarcasm is in fact not lost on me my good man, and I do appreciate it.
Then surely you agree that there is no issue with function(){...} vs function()
=> ...being "confusing"?
So, is there any argument besides "6 more characters" for *not* using the
function keyword?
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