[Flow] [RFC] CGL: Allow "ArrayElementType[]" syntax

[Carsten Bleicker]

use java ^^ and you have all of this :D


> Am 27.02.2015 um 11:05 schrieb Bastian Waidelich <bastian at typo3.org>:
> 
> On 06.02.15, at 08:43, Christian Müller wrote:
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
>> I am currently against doing that, for the following reasons
> 
> Good points and I agree.
> But there are cases where this IDE support is a tremendous help (usage reference, refactoring, less typos, better readability than inline @var annotations, ...).
> 
>> - We need to use development resources to adapt Flow to understand this
>> format (Reflection, PropertyMapping etc.)
> 
> True, but maybe it's worth putting some effort into supporting this syntax *in addition*.
> 
> 
>> - We don't have a good solution for Collection types, so they would most
>> probably end up with a different syntax
> 
> For collections (i.e. "generics") we already use
> Collection<ElementType>
> 
> And I think that's perfectly fine (it would be even better if IDEs like PhpStorm would support that syntax, too and there are similar feature requests [1]).
> 
> 
>> - IMHO it's syntactically crappy to read ("User in Array" vs. "Array of
>> User")
> 
> So for "User[]" you read "User in Array"?
> I think it's probably a matter of getting used to.
> 
> 
> What do you think about the following:
> We don't change the CGL in that regard but we're free to use the "array-syntax" if it increases readability. In addition I'll try to add reflection/property mapping support for it so that it *could* be used in action arguments and injections too!?
> 
> [1] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-6558
> 
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> Bastian Waidelich
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