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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 14:00:34 +0100
To: "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: edink@emini.dk (Edin Kadribasic)

I like it :)
+1

Edin

On Feb 4, 2007, at 8:25, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I thought I may have brought this up a long time ago but couldn't find=20=

> anything in the archives.
> For a long time already I've been thinking about possibly adding a new=20=

> syntax for array(...) which would be shorter. I'd suggest
> [...]. While I am usually not in favor of having more than one way to=20=

> 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) =3D=3D [1, 2, 3]
> array(1, 2, array("foo", "bar")) =3D=3D [1, 2, ["foo", "bar"]]
> array("key" =3D> 1, "key2" =3D> 2) =3D=3D ["key" =3D> 1, "key2" =3D> =
2]
>
> $arr =3D [1, 2, 3]
> vs.
> $arr =3D array(1, 2, 3)
>
> Well enough examples given :)
> I think it's not worth doing unless there's overwhelming support as=20
> it's not desperately needed. But I'd be interested to hear
> people's thoughts. It seems implementation shouldn't be an issue but=20=

> I'd have to dive a bit deeper.
>
> Andi
>
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