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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: brianm@dealnews.com (Brian Moon)

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> you, they don't have a clue what they are doing.  $a = [1,2,3]; would 
>> not mean jack sqat to those folks.  And as stated, finding docs on that 
> 
> How hard can that be? If one is smart enough to do computer programming, 
> how hard can it be to know $a=[1,2,3] is an array? Like, what else could 
> it be?
> 

When a new PHP user asks you "What is an array?" you will understand. 
Its clear that not all the folks on internals have actually spoken to 
the masses of users whose first language is PHP.  People don't start 
with BASIC and Pascal anymore.  That is why it has gotten so popular. 
Someone who has never programmed before can pick it up and start hacking.

Don't even try explaining a ternary to them. =)

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