!rant

PHP guys, your equivalent to the dot operator looks weird to me with no whitespace, anybody else spaces out their arrows like this?

No, didn't even knew it's valid.
Aesthetically speaking, I don't like much, 😊

I always do

app->getContainer()

Thinking bout
app.getContainer()

Do you do

app . getContainer() ?

I didn't know you could add space around it. Curious about other php devs. Looks weird to me apart tho haha

looked to me like an anonymous function

Yeah its weird, i didn't notice it was php.

Funny that you guys didn't know it was valid--it's not my first time spacing them. Well if it looks that weird to you all, ill do the sensible thing and stick to convention. Thanks everyone

Also, don't do ?> at the end. It prevents you from leaking unintended whitespace in your output.

That's just a waste of space...

@hjk101 i do agree; I dont know why, the arrows look weird to me period. I guess I'll get used to it soon enough because im starting up a project using Slim to make the API

@AllenII
You do get used to it but almost every other language uses a dot. As I'm multilingual I sometimes pick the wrong operator.
In Perl the dereferencing is even inconsistent: $hash{key}; vs $hashref->{key};. In php it's just a different operator (a one character to long operator at that).

@hjk101 exactly

I like it better without the spaces. But occasionally I do this:
$app->getContainer()
->getSubject()
->getSystem()
->getPath();

Hell no, that looks weird

In C, dereferencing + access to method uses the -> operator as well, so I can just imagine everything's a pointer and it makes sense