> 1. It aligns with the addition of the functions referenced in the
original post (`str_[contains|starts_with|ends_with]()`), and one
their stated reasons of simplifying the API for userland developers.
Two reactions to this: One, reflection isn't a facility for novices,
so there's no need to cate
PHP's notion of "implements" is identical to that of Java and C#. This is
not by accident, many programmers have to work in multiple programming
languages. The less a language does things "differently" the better.
And honestly, the upsides of this proposal are not worth the BC breaks
created with
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:32 AM Troy McCabe wrote:
> Hey Nikita,
>
> Thanks for the thoughts.
>
> > Could you please explain in more detail *why* we should duplicate
> existing reflection functionality into free-standing functions?
>
> In terms of the *why*, there were three main reasons:
> 1. It
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 10:30, Jakob Givoni wrote:
> > Token names shouldn't show up. Everyone is agreeing with that statement.
> > Universally. Let's fix that problem rather than create new ones by not
> > addressing the underlying issue.
>
> Are you saying that this RFC is creating a new probl
> So please, let the parser tell me not only the line of the error, but
also the colum.
> Other information currently missing from the message - e.g. column
> number, hints about unclosed blocks - is likely to be far more useful
>> a) Character count (at line 456, character 23)
> >>
> >> b) Quote
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:14 AM Sara Golemon wrote:
>
> You know what shows up unambiguously in a google search? "Paamayim
> Nekudotayim".
> You know what ISN'T unambiguous in a google search? "Double Colon"
Straw man. The point being that you wouldn't have to Google "Double
Colon" because it is
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 05:32, Troy McCabe wrote:
>
> > You do mention performance as a benefit, but it's not immediately
> obvious to me which use-cases are bottlenecked by class constant reflection.
>
> Enum implementations are the big case for this.
>
I've also used it in the past for generat
