On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:03 AM Benjamin Eberlei <kont...@beberlei.de> wrote:
> It provides a small BC break where code written as @[$foo, $bar] = baz(); > or $foo = @["bar" => $baz]; will not compile on PHP 8 anymore, but that can > be easily > fixed by writing it with a space between @ and [. > > If those are the potential breaks we're choosing between, I would favor #[...] as it provides strong forward-compatibility to drive adoption and use at the cost of a parse error that's easily fixed (even programmatically with a very simple script). @[...] provides no forward compat with a roughly equal chance of easily fixed syntax break. Given that, the choice seems obvious to me. Change my mind? -Sara
