Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27829 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88425 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Feb 2007 20:32:08 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88410 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 20:32:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 20:32:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:13818] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 64/B2-61367-64497C54 for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:32:07 -0500 Received: (qmail 4238 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 20:30:24 -0000 Received: from office.zend.office (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (192.168.16.109) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 20:30:24 -0000 Message-ID: <45C79403.2020108@zend.com> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:30:59 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Windows/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Cummings CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <011701c7482d$a39f6910$6500a8c0@zend.2k> <28139bc0702040319p6a5cffdbi2e5999d7ebf48662@mail.gmail.com> <45C6DCF5.1000102@dealnews.com> <45C7710D.5030205@zend.com> <1170707329.6612.63.camel@blobule> In-Reply-To: <1170707329.6612.63.camel@blobule> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > $a = array( 1, 2, 3 ). > It's not hard. I don't think anybody ever argued it's hard to understand. The argument was it's too verbose once you talk about multi-dimensional arrays with a lot of sub-arrays containing in turn even more sub-arrays - entire code becomes packed with repetitions of "array" word. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/