On 23 October 2020 21:14:49 BST, Mike Schinkel wrote:
>> On Oct 23, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Rowan Tommins
>wrote:
>>
>> I don't follow; is the resulting JSON different if you cast to
>object, or is there some other reason you prefer an object over using
>an associative array directly?
>
>The by-refere
> On Oct 23, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Rowan Tommins wrote:
>
> I don't follow; is the resulting JSON different if you cast to object, or is
> there some other reason you prefer an object over using an associative array
> directly?
The by-reference semantics of objects vs arrays in PHP.
> Also, to cl
On 23/10/2020 16:08, Andreas Bittner wrote:
Closing I would like to make a short point with regards to the
`(object)` cast:
Both a cast of \stdClass to `(array)` and a cast of arrays to
`(object)` are common use cases in (JSON-)API development. It is not
unheard of for API signatures to contain
On 23/10/2020 16:52, Theodore Brown wrote:
The problem with this is that it results in inconsistent semantics,
where the number of items in an attribute group results in a
different type of value being passed. I.e. if you remove two of the
three attributes from the list, suddenly the code will br
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 19:08, Michael Voříšek - ČVUT FEL <
voris...@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> We can deprecate comments with "#" in 8.0 or 8.1
>
> ...
>
> Is there anything against excl. BC break of "#" comments? Who is for it?
>
>
I'm all for it, especially considering that it's trivial to fix old
co
Wdyt about dedicating "#" char for attributes?
We can deprecate comments with "#" in 8.0 or 8.1
and in later version support attributes with "#" single character -
without [] brackets, ie. support:
#Attribute1
#Attribte2
public function x()...
which will be equivalent to:
#[
#Attribute
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:13 AM Rowan Tommins wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 16:17, Theodore Brown wrote:
>
> >
> > In theory nested attributes could be supported in the same way with
> > the `#[]` syntax, but it's more verbose and I think less intuitive
> > (e.g. people may try to use the gr
e.g. `$x = object{key: object{'escaped-literal': $v2 }};`
(equivalent to `$x = (object)['key' => (object)['escaped-literal' => $v2]];`)
For example, in JS, non-string key literals are surrounded in `[]` to
unambiguously reference them.
Here, that could be `object{[$key]: $value, [MY_CONST]: $oth
