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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:10:13 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Andi,

  it is a bit harder to read and not the php way imo.

best regards
marcus

Sunday, February 4, 2007, 8:25:22 AM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> I thought I may have brought this up a long time ago but couldn't find anything in the archives.
> For a long time already I've been thinking about possibly adding a new
> syntax for array(...) which would be shorter. I'd suggest
> [...]. While I am usually not in favor of having more than one way to do
> things, I think it'd look much more elegant especially (but
> not only) for nested arrays.

> So what I'm thinking of is:
> array(1, 2, 3) == [1, 2, 3]
> array(1, 2, array("foo", "bar")) == [1, 2, ["foo", "bar"]]
> array("key" => 1, "key2" => 2) == ["key" => 1, "key2" => 2]

> $arr = [1, 2, 3]
> vs.
> $arr = array(1, 2, 3)

> Well enough examples given :)
> I think it's not worth doing unless there's overwhelming support as it's
> not desperately needed. But I'd be interested to hear
> people's thoughts. It seems implementation shouldn't be an issue but I'd have to dive a bit deeper.

> Andi




Best regards,
 Marcus