On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Here's an RFC for a small, simple, self-contained feature with no
> backwards-compatibility breaks and which in fact doesn't even touch the
> language's syntax (it's 50%+1 eligible!) but which could make PHP a bit
> more expressive and consistent, especially with potential later features.
> It even has a test designed to impose minimal maintenance burden while
> testing a fairly large possibility space!
>
> Anyway, the RFC in question is this: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/opera
> tor_functions
>
> Please tell me what you think and suggest any potential improvements or
> anything you think might have been an omission.
>
> Thanks!
> --
>
This is bloody brilliant!
Stupid example, but:
function factorial(int $i) { return array_reduce(range(1, $i), "*", 1); }
I see great potential in this: moving away from operators as weird
syntactic sugar and in the direction of operators as functions (what they
actually are).
Marco Pivetta
http://twitter.com/Ocramius
http://ocramius.github.com/
