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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:59:07 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

My 2c - unless we also make it behave like a list() when in 
assignment context - I think it will confusing.

So I'm +1 if we make it work as both list() and array(), and -1 otherwise.

Zeev

At 09:25 04-02-07, Andi Gutmans 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
>
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