On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 23:51, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 7:22 AM, Rodrigo Vieira wrote: > > Will the alternative syntax on hook not even be put to a vote? > > It was, a year and a half ago when Aviz was first proposed. The preference > was split, but leaned toward the prefix-style syntax. So we went with that. > I don't think we'll ever get everyone to want the same syntax, but we're > using the one that was both somewhat more popular, and (as discussed in the > RFC) arguably superior. > > As the "comments in yield from" thread has shown, *any* even slight change to > PHP's syntax will require work from static analysis tools. That's the nature > of the problem space, regardless of the syntax specifics. > > --Larry Garfield >
Just to play devil’s advocate, it was also before we had property hooks who advertised itself as a way to “wrap and guard access to object properties” but we are simply ignoring their existence here. — Rob
