149 - Sugar that syntax

Mar 3, 2022 · 33m 22s

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How to support Ukraine https://supportukrainenow.org/ Change log - I’m working back in the land of legacy. PHP 5.6 - Goose (My 2nd English Springer Spaniel) is now 9 weeks old...

How to support Ukraine https://supportukrainenow.org/ Change log

I’m working back in the land of legacy. PHP 5.6
Goose (My 2nd English Springer Spaniel) is now 9 weeks old and has razor teeth.
I’ve been working on using Vagrant, Docker, Parallels and Ansible to create a test lab for HTCW
We reviewed the documentation for tutorial 5 and 6 of the PHP login course on Tuesdays live coding stream
I am talking at PHP North West Drupal User Group NWDUG next Tuesday at 7PM so I won’t be streaming on YouTube on Tuesday

What is Syntax Sugar This is a term used to describe code that is meant to be more readable and helpful to humans.

It’s sometimes called Candygramming
Can shorten code to one liners which can be helpful and easier to read
Can be difficult to change and maintain in the future
Can lead to hidden magic features that are used in the language eg _get and _set
Is sometime perceived as a lazy way to write code
Reduces the syntax needed to perform an operation
If done badly then it can lead to over complication, bad abstraction and even worse code readability then before

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