Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27856 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12144 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Feb 2007 15:16:46 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12129 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 15:16:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 15:16:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=cschneid@cschneid.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=cschneid@cschneid.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain cschneid.com from 195.141.85.117 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: cschneid@cschneid.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 195.141.85.117 uf1.search.ch Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [195.141.85.117] ([195.141.85.117:60093] helo=smtp.rim.ch) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 48/15-04145-CDB98C54 for ; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:16:45 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rolig.search.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E57019AF41; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:16:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.rim.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (search.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22423-10; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:16:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.72] (ultrafilter-i [192.168.85.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rolig.search.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id A555319A28E; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:16:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45C89BCC.1080102@cschneid.com> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:16:28 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alain Williams CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <1170772895.9567.4.camel@blobule> <20070206144653.GW5327@mint.phcomp.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070206144653.GW5327@mint.phcomp.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at search.ch Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider) Alain Williams wrote: > Anyway: it makes php look like perl -- and that would never do :-) Can we please stop that FUD? (even if it is meant as a joke) ... if at all then you might say it looks like Javascript, Python or Ruby. Perl uses an ugly mix of () and [] to emulate multi-dimensional arrays rather unlike the syntax proposed here. Thanks, - Chris