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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:28:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings)

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 10:01 -0800, 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?

The same argument can be made about how hard it is to understand

    $a = array( 1, 2, 3 ).

Cheers,
Rob.
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