Adventures of a GoLang Developer and former WordPress Engineer
I’ve been learning a bit about Haskell recently and it has me pining for lazy evaluation in PHP without all the effort of doing it manually. As I envision it lazy evaluation in PHP would allow annotating a class property or even a variable with a typehint-like keyword lazy and then when that property or …
This solution had me literally working on-again off-again for a full week. One of the main reasons it took so long was I was trying to write a wrapper to simplify because I find the reflect package in Go so unintuitive and hard-to-work-with. But it turns out that trying to write a wrapper around an …
In summary I am proposing the PHP leverage the use statement like the PHP trait does, but with a class modifier to allow for automatic delegation of method calls to contained instances.
Also I am proposing we leverage the disambiguation syntax that is already available for traits, and extend it in a few ways that traits do not address such as:
as to allow for renaming from the property names for delegate classes,include or exclude to allow including or excluding specific methods, anduse method to allow for including specific methods.
“Imagine if — starting with version 6.0 maybe — the WordPress team chose to actually deprecate themes, and then added modules and components as first-class extensions instead? “
“Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Winston Churchill, plagiarized Composer for PHP is much like democracy, except for there are no others. So I have always hated Composer, for many reasons. And my views on Composer are admittedly in stark contrast with many others …
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I am not a researcher so I don’t have the statistics to back up my assertions for the post, but I have mostly written programs for a living for over 25 years — in my opinion — there is one hugely important aspect of coding standards rarely discussed and that is: reproducability. “Reproducability” defined What …
Yes, complex conditionals are worse. But there is a third, better way. And no, it does not involve GOTOs. Me This post is about a coding pattern I have never seen used by anyone else for writing guard clauses, especially when those guard clauses are complex. This pattern results in code that is significantly more …
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UPDATE: Since writing these over 3 years ago I have since learned a lot more about GoLang and its type system. Ironically, I now realize that GoLang has type aliases that are effectively what I was lobbying for. ORIGINAL POST: Go is a great language — probably one of the best — but it is …
D.R.Y., or “Don’t Repeat Yourself” has become a mantra for developers in recent years to the level of becoming dogma. Unfortunately, as with most dogma, it is often viewed more of an absolute rule and less of a general guideline that often should be ignored. The opposite of D.R.Y. Since we have this nice cheesy …
UPDATE: Since writing these over 3 years ago I have since learned a lot more about GoLang and its type system. As such I now realize that GoLang has type aliases to address the need that I was writing an experience report about. ORIGINAL POST: One of the niftier aspects of programming in Go is …