Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21725 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45292 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Jan 2006 20:58:37 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45277 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2006 20:58:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Jan 2006 20:58:36 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 210.55.31.88 mail.album.co.nz Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([210.55.31.88:42768] helo=www.album.co.nz) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 22/15-33179-B7C2DD34 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:58:36 -0500 Received: by www.album.co.nz (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 3D40C5525B; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:58:31 +1300 (NZDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-gr0 (2005-09-13) on www.album.co.nz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=3.1.0-gr0 Received: from [192.168.225.244] (gate1.digiweb.net.nz [202.174.112.3]) by www.album.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632CF204A8; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:58:30 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <43DD2C76.4010402@album.co.nz> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:58:30 +1300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Deaton CC: James Crane , internals@lists.php.net References: <2a8d4a710601282225g4f06a6c7v59edb232eb9584a4@mail.gmail.com> <43DC7227.4070600@dealnews.com> <23b513280601290844h1c58f798qba32ed20848f2da2@mail.gmail.com> <2a8d4a710601291032g3e4b3b93i3f3edc5b19c66dc8@mail.gmail.com> <23b513280601291046v24720f2bl28b0a88fadcc90be@mail.gmail.com> <2a8d4a710601291220i5d33202ewabe9337d40043299@mail.gmail.com> <2a8d4a710601291221q186165adwe780ca5f3ee253@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Array Literals From: jasper@album.co.nz (Jasper Bryant-Greene) Robert Deaton wrote: > On 1/29/06, James Crane wrote: > >>Then why don't we have these: >> >>$i = integer(5); >>$f = float(4.5); >>$s = string("foo"); > > > Perhaps because any sane person will know without reading a manual, > that " delimits a string, a number without a decimal is an integer, > and a number with a decimal is a floating point number. In the same way that any sane person would know that array() indicates an array? J