> On Jun 3, 2020, at 18:54, Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi internals,
> 
> I discussed the syntax for attributes further with Benjamin, Martin,
> and several other internals developers off-list, and with their
> feedback completed an RFC proposing to use the shorter `@@` syntax
> instead of `<<>>` for attributes in PHP 8.
> 
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax
> 
> The goal is not to bikeshed over subjective syntax preferences,
> but to address several concrete shortcomings related to verbosity,
> nested attributes, confusion with generics and other tokens, and
> dissimilarity to other common languages.


After reading the RFC, I think I’m a +1 on the proposed `@@` syntax.

Glancing at the example code in the RFC, I think this improves readability (at 
least to my eyes).

Cheers,
Ben


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