Re: Coding standard for examples in documentation

On 14.10.2024 at 21:43, Jim Winstead wrote:

> The coding style for the documentation has been documented to be the PEAR coding standard (https://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php) which is more than a little out-dated at this point. This has come up in at least a few PR reviews recently.
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> Any objections to changing this to the PER Coding Style 2.0 (https://www.php-fig.org/per/coding-style/)?
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> I don't think we should be aggressive about going in and updating existing examples, but should strive to make sure that new and changed examples are in sync with the new CS through reviews and perhaps automated checks.
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> (I guess the last time this came up it got bogged down in the quagmire about whether using a PHP-FIG standard implied some sort of favoritism or endorsement or whatever. Maybe we'll have to open a RFC on internals@ to address this documentation issue? https://news-web.php.net/php.doc/969387610)

Thinking about <https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=21036>, I agree
that we should switch to something that is up-to-date.

Christoph