From: Rob Landers <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2024 11:21 AM
> 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.
> 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.
I'm very disappointed that this discussion was not concluded before the vote was started. One
of the main arguments for picking this syntax is the research from two years ago, when hooks where
not a thing. In my opinion that makes that whole research obsolete in this new context. I've
asked to redo the research, but that was not acknowledged
For the 'split visibility' concern, there has been some mentioning of reviving the
var keyword, allowing you to place all visibility in the hook block.
While I don't have the 'perfect' syntax in mind, I strongly believe that this subject
required a bit more investigation and discussion. My only hope now is that the people voting take
this into consideration, especially as this is now being rushed into 8.4.
--
Vincent de Lau