Eugen Neuber

Parentheses do not add anything to a human to understand what is going on.

Since PHP does not require curly braces in strings most of the time, we can get rid of those parentheses too (when they are not required by the language anymore).

• less clutter
• syntax worked for other languages
• easy understandable

Makes it more readable.

With First-class callable syntax available since 8.1, it would now be possible to write it as below, which is much better then string names of functions:

$result = "Hello World"
    |> htmlentities(...)
    |> str_split(...)
    |> fn($x) => array_map(strtoupper(...), $x)
    |> fn($x) => array_filter($x, fn($v) => $v != 'O');

Technically writing a trait isn't a showstopper, but it adds cognitive load because the developer now must know/remember using this Interface requires adding this Trait. PHP should focus more on development experience!

PHP is evolving. There are new concepts added to many programming languages to ease writing and reading (more important!). PHP should focus more on developer experience (but not for legacy projects that get never upgraded to PHP 8+).

We spend a lot more time reading code than writing it. The elegance of short closure combined with the convenience of variable scope usage has already shown to be a game changer on Typescript and there doesn’t seem to be any technical issue with having it on PHP.

Creating traits for default implementation is just a pain. I want syntactic sugar