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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:27:36 -0500
To: Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

I have to second Marcus on this, this new syntax makes things harder  
to read. I mean what are you saving here, a few letter?

Ilia


On 4-Feb-07, at 2:25 AM, 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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Ilia Alshanetsky