Amazing wording Dan: great way to drive people away. YIKES. Marco Pivetta
https://mastodon.social/@ocramius https://ocramius.github.io/ On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 13:49, Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com> wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 09:12, Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am not sure this RFC is really relevant... Would it perhaps > > make sense to have this in userland first, in phpstan or psalm > > plugins, to see if there is interest? > > The RFC lists other languages where an equivalent is available, and we > can see that it appears quite popular: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/94361/when-do-you-use-javas-override-annotation-and-why > https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2000 > > In those languages, it is a recommended "defensive programming" > (https://ocramius.github.io/extremely-defensive-php/#/23) technique, > that protects against the types of mistakes that are listed in the > RFC. > > So one should be able to see there is interest....unless of course > someone is so bad at basic human empathy, that they can't accept other > people's lived experiences as valid, and will only accept something as > 'good programming practice' if they have invented or experienced it > themselves. > > But if that's the case, there's no use trying to persuade them. > > All you can do is point out that habit of not liking things that they > haven't yet used/invented themselves, and hope that other people don't > spend too much time arguing with someone who has a pattern of being > unreasonable. > > cheers > Dan > Ack >
