PSR-12: what about alternative control structures syntax?

[Anatoly Pashin]

http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-syntax.php

This thing is totally forgotten in PSR-1, PSR-2 and PSR-12.

Alternative syntax is very neat to write templates.

[Joe Meyer]

Personally, I find no need for the alternative syntax structures with proper indentation and in fact find it much easier to rely on my IDE to help me match up the opening / closing braces. Additionally, I think that as soon as you end up with nested control structures, you want proper indentation to keep things straight anyway at which point why not just use the curly braces. In the case of templating, if I have something that's fairly nested in logic, usually I take that as a sign that it's time to break up my template files, which also helps with readability.

[Korvin Szanto]

I'm with Joe on this one. I don't necessarily want to get into the mess of recommending style for mixed PHP and HTML. If there is a real demand for this, perhaps we should require exactly "if (true):" just to set the colon placement in stone.

Thanks,

Korvin

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[Alexander Makarov]

Agree with Joe more or less mainly because there are multiple styles of aligning HTML tags. We have an example in Yii though: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/blob/master/docs/internals/view-code-style.md