Amazing work. I thought PHP was going the way of Perl. The resurgence in the community and the speed of development has been astonishing.

Any reason why they went with @@ instead of @ (ignoring that they are changing it again).

I hope this isn’t similar to the reason how they ended up with \ as a namespace separator…

I checked the original RFC, but couldn’t … ah wait, found it:

Specifically “[]” or “@” are not possible because they conflict with the short array syntax and error suppression operators.

Ooof, I remember.