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Re:Things you should know about PHP 7 by juriansluiman on Thursday March 26, 2015 @10:28AM (#9269827)
The idea is that the old php syntax "function foo ()" remains unchanged [1] so developers can keep searching for "function foo". Removing "function" as keyword is a different topic and is discussed in a separate php thread [2].

The thing you mention ("float function add(){}") keeps the option to search for "function add", but I am unsure why this is not taken into account in this proposal.

Anyhow, I am pretty happy this finally made it to the php language.

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/return_types#position_of_type_decla...

[2] http://marc.info/?t=141235344900003&r=1&w=2

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Re:Things you should know about PHP 7 by steveklabnik on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:33PM (#9270907)
Having 'function foo' be grep-able is _wonderful_. My last language, Ruby, isn't very grep-able, but my current one, Rust, uses 'fn foo', and being able to just use 'git grep' to find things is _wonderful_.
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