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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:18:32 -0000
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
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To: "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: M.Ford@leedsmet.ac.uk ("Ford, Mike")

On 04 February 2007 07:25, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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]
>=20
> $arr =3D [1, 2, 3]
> vs.
> $arr =3D array(1, 2, 3)
>=20
> 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.

Overwhelming support from here ;-D

Seriously, I personally find the [...] syntax really elegant and
intuitive, and the array(...) syntax really hard to read and
obfuscating.

A BIG +1

Cheers!

Mike

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