Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27825 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52288 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Feb 2007 19:32:54 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52273 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 19:32:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 19:32:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=brianm@dealnews.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=brianm@dealnews.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain dealnews.com designates 129.41.69.185 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: brianm@dealnews.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 129.41.69.185 smtp.dealnews.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [129.41.69.185] ([129.41.69.185:56325] helo=smtp.dealnews.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F4/1D-61367-56687C54 for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:32:53 -0500 Received: (qmail 1750 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 14:32:51 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.6.4?) (10.1.6.4) by -H with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 14:32:51 -0500 Message-ID: <45C78662.20209@dealnews.com> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:32:50 -0600 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Macintosh/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrei Zmievski CC: Stanislav Malyshev , internals@lists.php.net References: <011701c7482d$a39f6910$6500a8c0@zend.2k> <28139bc0702040319p6a5cffdbi2e5999d7ebf48662@mail.gmail.com> <45C6DCF5.1000102@dealnews.com> <45C7710D.5030205@zend.com> <45C7747B.3070603@dealnews.com> <45C7766D.8050909@zend.com> <45C7807B.1000008@dealnews.com> <28737ebc61eb6762701932617d7b1584@gravitonic.com> In-Reply-To: <28737ebc61eb6762701932617d7b1584@gravitonic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array From: brianm@dealnews.com (Brian Moon) Andrei Zmievski wrote: > I don't buy the "searching docs is easier" argument. There are plenty of > operators and such that are hard to search for. Good point, but, were there pre-existing solutions to those operators when they were created? I think that is the point that Zeev was making. We have a way to do this that is 95% the same as this new method. If this was a new language construct the discussion would be totally different. -- Brian Moon ------------- http://dealnews.com/ It's good to be cheap =)