Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27837 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81039 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Feb 2007 23:37:16 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81024 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 23:37:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 23:37:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ceo@l-i-e.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ceo@l-i-e.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain l-i-e.com from 67.139.134.202 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from [67.139.134.202] ([67.139.134.202:3195] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CD/A5-43531-BAFB7C54 for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:37:16 -0500 Received: (qmail 31650 invoked by uid 98); 5 Feb 2007 23:37:17 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/2523. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 1.130533 secs); 05 Feb 2007 23:37:17 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ceo@l-i-e.com via o2.hostbaby.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 1.130533 secs) Received: from localhost (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 23:37:16 -0000 Received: from 216.230.84.67 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:37:16 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <39419.216.230.84.67.1170718636.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <28737ebc61eb6762701932617d7b1584@gravitonic.com> 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> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:37:16 -0600 (CST) To: "Andrei Zmievski" Cc: internals@lists.php.net Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Mon, February 5, 2007 1:18 pm, 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. Yes, and it makes life miserable for some of us... Is that a good reason to extend that misery to yet another operator? If the 'array' syntax bugs one that much, write a parser in PHP for the [] syntax and load the giant arrays with that. :-) :-) :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?