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Am 02.11.2017 um 10:55 schrieb Tony Marston:
"Kalle Sommer Nielsen" wrote in message
I fail to see how it offers "negative benefits to the vast number of
programmers who are happy with the language as it currently exists", I
If it's put into the language then it affects 100% of the users, but what
percentage of the user base would actually take advantage of this
feature? If it's only 1% then for the other 99% it's a complete waste of
time
how does any feature you don't use affect you?
Because the language itself becomes bloated with the capabilities it has to
offer, look for and deal with. This makes it bigger and slower. For example,
if you have a vehicle which is capable of going anywhere, over every types
of terrain, in every climate from sub zero to blisteringly hot then at any
one time you are not using all the capabilities, yet you are still carrying
the around.
The core language should be kept lean and mean, and should only have new
instructions added when (a) something cannot be done easily in userland
code, and (b) when that something is of genuine use to a significant number
of people. Complicating the language with something that can already be done
with a few lines of userland code and which is desired by only a miniscule
number of people does not fall into this category.
i don't care about pdo and many other core extensions nor about namespaces,
traits and so on - but they don't affect me at all
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Tony Marston
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