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by peterhil 1619 days ago
Wow, Php almost catches up with majority of programming languages!
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peterhil 1619 days ago
Can't wait for:

  - Pattern matching in switch statements (done horribly wrong)
  - If, while, and switch expressions
  - Inferred type system
  - Consistent array method argument order
  - Actually usable higher order functions and reflection
Big reminder: Php is a fractal of bad design, and I intensely hated using it at work for many years. The only good thing in Php is Symfony2 framework.

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

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TheCapeGreek 1619 days ago
Big reminder: Read beyond decade old articles. This is precisely the tired parroted line people in this post are talking about when they say they don't understand the modern hate.
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xigoi 1619 days ago
Does modern PHP have any of:

  - Pattern matching in switch statements

  - If, while, and switch expressions

  - Inferred type system

  - Consistent array method argument order

  - Actually usable higher order functions and reflection

?
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Zababa 1619 days ago
Sum types, too, since the enums are C enums.
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fraktl 1619 days ago
You could have googled and hated better. Why bother trolling if you won't even give it 40 seconds of using search engines?
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