Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20123 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14634 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Nov 2005 01:37:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14619 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2005 01:37:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Nov 2005 01:37:33 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 lerdorf.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([204.11.219.139:52779] helo=colo.lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id F3/71-07637-D503D734 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:37:33 -0500 Received: from [192.168.11.3] (c-24-6-96-18.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.96.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jAI1bGEf020092; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:37:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20051117231951.2586.qmail@webmachine101.com> References: <20051117231951.2586.qmail@webmachine101.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-ID: Cc: "Rasmus Lerdorf" , internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:37:16 -0800 To: "Jevon Wright" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski) How do you know this? Have you conducted polls? -Andrei On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Jevon Wright wrote: > Is there anything wrong with having a convention for character > access of strings? Most PHP programmers see {} as string access and > [] as array access - sure, they might be functionally identical, > but its the convention which is important.