The dot is already the string concatenation operator. This would be a horrible
migration process. The PHP team is never going to upset the developer
experience that much for a purely cosmetic change.
Also, C and C++ use the -> symbol, two major languages.
Regards
On 6 Jul 2017, 08:13 +0200, Khawer . <khaweronl...@gmail.com>, wrote:
> In all major programming languages we access object properties and methods
> using dot(.).
>
> C#:
> Abc Abc = new Abc();
> Abc.method();
>
> Java:
> Abc Abc = new Abc();
> Abc.method();
>
> JavaScript:
> var apple = new function() {
> this.name = "Test";
> }
> alert(apple.name());
>
>
> Why not to make PHP similar to these languages by allowing to access object
> properties and methods using dot(.). We will still keep "->" until PHP 8 to
> maintain backward compatibility.
