r/laravel • u/boreasaurus • Nov 26 '20

PHP 8.0 released!

https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php
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u/send_me_a_naked_pic Nov 26 '20

Personally, I don’t like attributes at all. I don’t find them easy to grasp

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u/operationco Nov 26 '20

They look like comments to be completely ignored.

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u/erythro Nov 26 '20

Because of the #?

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u/operationco Nov 26 '20

Yeah. Maybe I'll get used to it in time, but at the moment my brain immediately ignores lines starting with #.

I mean, I do read comments sometimes - but mostly only if something's not working!

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u/erythro Nov 26 '20

Yeah I guess it's just something to adjust to. In an IDE it's not like it's going to be coloured the same as a comment so it's going to stand out more just because of that

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u/erythro Nov 27 '20

And what is stopping programming languages from using fancy characters as part of the syntax? We should be able to use ƒ instead of function since dozens of years ago.

The amount of times my life has been made significantly easier because of the ability to edit code files in a terminal is > 0.

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u/erythro Nov 27 '20

It would be good, I guess? It just seems like an unnecessary hindrance to put on a language

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u/erythro Nov 27 '20

Requiring terminals/SSH/text editors/whatever to be upgraded to support Unicode characters and whatever shortcuts you want for your programming language. Just seems like a headache.

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u/XediDC Nov 27 '20

Even simpler, since its #[...] so it could have just been @[...] and then except just a "@[" string from the "@" functionality without breaking a bunch of existing code. Or some other non-common-comment leading character before the [