Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20145 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66198 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Nov 2005 13:26:28 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66183 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2005 13:26:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Nov 2005 13:26:28 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.136.52.68 mailgate-out2.mysql.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([213.136.52.68:36021] helo=mailgate.mysql.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 5C/DF-07637-286DD734 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:26:26 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate.mysql.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAIDQIeM027416; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:26:18 +0100 Received: from mail.mysql.com ([10.222.1.99]) by localhost (mailgate.mysql.com [10.222.1.98]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id 01907-08; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:26:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (p5486A39B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.134.163.155]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.mysql.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAIDQDTO021301 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:26:14 +0100 Message-ID: <437DD600.5090807@php.net> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:24:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050704 SeaMonkey/1.0a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derick Rethans CC: Andreas Korthaus , internals@lists.php.net, Rasmus Lerdorf , Ilia Alshanetsky References: <437B530A.5050105@prohost.org> <437CF6B4.5080207@web.de> <437CF943.7090800@lerdorf.com> <437D0D08.8060805@web.de> <437DBCAB.3060009@web.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mailgate.mysql.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces From: hartmut@php.net (Hartmut Holzgraefe) Derick Rethans wrote: >> Don't you think it's useful to allow a convention like {} for strings and [] >> for arrays, so you can be sure what $str{1} means without looking at any >> context? > > No. > > Derick ok, next stop: "Operator Overloading"? ;) -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer . MySQL AB, www.mysql.com