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Cc: Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>, internals@lists.php.net
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:18:23 -0800
To: Brian Moon <brianm@dealnews.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

I don't buy the "searching docs is easier" argument. There are plenty 
of operators and such that are hard to search for.

-Andrei

On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Brian Moon wrote:

>> If someone is not familiar with the concept of the array at all, it 
>> doesn't matter if it's written as array(1,2,3) or [1,2,3]. That's not 
>> what we are discussing right now.
>
> My point is that if its written array(1,2,3) that have something to 
> search for in the docs.  The new proposed syntax removes that keyword 
> that a user can use to find the help they need.  As I said, back 
> ticks, as well as ternary, both suffer from this problem.  I see no 
> reason to add another hurdle for new users when there is no clear 
> advantage to this new syntax.  And, IMO, clear means that a majority 
> of people think its a no brainer.  I would say right now we have 
> nothing of the sort.
>
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