On 2/24/2023 2:00 PM, nop head wrote:
IIRC people used braces to allow code folding in the editor
without any other meaning, so making them introduce a new scope would
be a breaking change.
It is indeed theoretically a breaking change.
{
x = 1;
}
echo(x);
is currently legal, and wouldn't be if braces introduced scopes.
I hadn't thought of the code-folding use. But really, how many people
are going to use it for that and expect that a variable setting will
persist outside the block?
And note that the cost of the current behavior is non-zero. We just had
a user confused by it and need to ask for help.
I don't know that I would ever get around to making this change, but if
somebody wanted to then I'd support it. My tolerance for retaining
flaws in the interest of compatibility is limited.
On 2/24/2023 2:00 PM, nop head wrote:
> IIRC people used braces to allow code folding in the editor
> without any other meaning, so making them introduce a new scope would
> be a breaking change.
>
It is indeed theoretically a breaking change.
{
x = 1;
}
echo(x);
is currently legal, and wouldn't be if braces introduced scopes.
I hadn't thought of the code-folding use. But really, how many people
are going to use it for that *and* expect that a variable setting will
persist outside the block?
And note that the cost of the current behavior is non-zero. We just had
a user confused by it and need to ask for help.
I don't know that I would ever get around to making this change, but if
somebody wanted to then I'd support it. My tolerance for retaining
flaws in the interest of compatibility is limited.
