Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20111 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61290 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Nov 2005 23:31:48 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61273 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2005 23:31:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Nov 2005 23:31:48 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 lerdorf.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([204.11.219.139:51825] helo=colo.lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 85/D9-07637-3E21D734 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:31:48 -0500 Received: from [207.126.233.18] (rasmus2.corp.yahoo.com [207.126.233.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jAHNViuh010017 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:31:45 -0800 Message-ID: <437D12DF.6060602@lerdorf.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:31:43 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Korthaus CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <437B530A.5050105@prohost.org> <437CF6B4.5080207@web.de> <437CF943.7090800@lerdorf.com> <437D0D08.8060805@web.de> <437D0E22.7080006@lerdorf.com> <437D11B7.7090102@web.de> In-Reply-To: <437D11B7.7090102@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Andreas Korthaus wrote: > OK, but by dropping {} for strings you also remove the possibility to > have a convention like "[] for arrays and {} for strings". > If I could decide I would drop {} for arrays and [] for strings, but I > fear I will not be asked to decide... ;-) And you are willing to break just about every application out there for this? There are millions of lines of code that uses [] for string offsets. -Rasmus