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1. user39+j7[view] [source] 2022-12-08 13:16:18
>>TimWol+(OP)
The worst part about PHP is constantly hearing from its detractors, who are often people who haven’t used the language in many years. Haystack needle order, $, fractal of bad design, it just gets old.

The language isn’t perfect but I love working with it, these 8.1 and 8.2 improvements have really made it sweet.

My biggest gripe at the moment is the (very old) behavior of e.g. preg_match() and sort(). You’ve got a small handful of these common functions that operate on their input by reference/in place which is gross. A new version of these would be welcome.

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2. porker+2e[view] [source] 2022-12-08 14:05:11
>>user39+j7
For the order of function arguments: sounds like you'd enjoy https://github.com/azjezz/psl.

Yes it's a userland workaround and not a fix for the language, but it's thinking about these issues and a PHP extension (offering better performance) is being talked about.

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3. zmxz+ax[view] [source] 2022-12-08 15:49:37
>>porker+2e
PHP 8.0.0 introduced named arguments which allow for arbitrary argument order. That was nearly 2 years ago exactly to date.

What does that lib do that PHP doesn't?

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4. within+kw1[view] [source] 2022-12-08 20:31:33
>>zmxz+ax
That lib probably makes any seasoned php dev really confused or think everything is backwards and somehow still works.
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