+1 On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 2:56 PM Benjamin Eberlei <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:55 AM Theodore Brown <[email protected]> > 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. > > > > Larry's suggestion about #[Attr] makes an important argument about allowing > to declare attributes in code in PHP 7 in a forward compatible way that has > not been brought up before. > > /** @ORM\Entity */ > #[ORM\Entity] > class User {} > > This code would work on PHP 7 and 8. > > The #[] syntax would have about equally low breaking potential as @@. It > would be the same syntax as Rusts, and close to C++/C# syntax. > > As such, instead of going through each alternative syntax one by one, with > with each having a 2/3 requirement to overthrow the old one, > I would be open to restart the secondary vote on Attributes syntax with > <<>> (status quo), @@ and #[] using the same ranked voting algorithm that > was used for the PHP 8 RM vote. > > @Sara @Gabriel I suppose this is something you two should be ok with (and > Theodore of course). > > I would take on the work to write about the third syntax alternative then. > The VoteRFC could just link to the three individual RFCs where each > discusses their syntax. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Theodore > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > >
