Hi

Den søn. 10. mar. 2019 kl. 23.45 skrev Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com>:
>
> Hello, peoples.  I know it's been discussed once or twice before on the list, 
> many years ago, but not recently.  I therefore feel OK putting forth the 
> following draft proposal for Comprehensions, aka "compact generators", in PHP:
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comprehensions

While I think believe the RFC has great intentions, I am not a fan by
any means to introduce convoluted syntaxes like this into PHP, I think
it is rather hard to read vs the gain of saving a few key strokes. I
think that both the shorthand closures and this makes PHP code
potentially even harder to read and I would prefer we did not add such
essential sugar where you need to understand the semantics very well
to understand what a piece of foreign code may do, in what order (like
the no yield example given).

One more thing that kinda "annoys" me / what I base my above statement
on is; when reading some of the example is that the code examples
given, as in the code inside a Comprehension does not look very
PHP-ish besides the $-sigil and I do not like the idea of having "two"
syntaxes for PHP where one is only available in a very narrow-,
specific context and I feel it would be prone to potential errors.

Another thing that has been mentioned by multiple people now is the
for-vs-foreach; If it is a foreach, which you mention in the RFC then
it should be so, not for. A little background on where I am coming
from here; I think it is great that we look at other languages and
technologies when designing PHP and adding more features the language,
however while I do believe it is an important point to keep cross
language consistency, I do think that consistency with PHP itself is
more important, which I believe too, is the reason for the expression
for using foreach in this context comes from (not only from my PoV).

-- 
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
ka...@php.net

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