Awesome. After spending way too much time staring at horrendously verbose and chattery PHP code lately (and being a Perl, and occasionally Python, developer historically), I've begun to wish for some resources on cutting down the verbosity dramatically. It's just painful to read most PHP code (many folks complain about Perl code, but at least most of it is short, and the culture encourages brevity and conciseness). PHP developers often seem to have some sort of inferiority complex about their language not being Java, and so they try to make it more like Java whenever possible. Which is, frankly, nuts. Java has its positive aspects, but none of those things are going to be achieved PHP by trying to emulate the syntax and OO conventions of the language.
Now if only an appreciation for the beauty of brevity would find its way into the PHP culture.
Don't do it. I spent 3 hours today working on a golf instead of, well, working. Luckily I still got everything done that I needed to but man, this is a real time sink if you thrive on competition. The people doing golfs on there are insanely good.
Now if only an appreciation for the beauty of brevity would find its way into the PHP culture.