Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27857 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14184 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Feb 2007 15:19:28 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14169 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 15:19:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 15:19:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 213.152.38.186 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.152.38.186 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [213.152.38.186] ([213.152.38.186:61607] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6A/55-04145-F7C98C54 for ; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:19:27 -0500 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HES6P-0004ge-4h; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:19:25 +0000 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:19:25 +0000 To: Christian Schneider Cc: Alain Williams , internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20070206151925.GZ5327@mint.phcomp.co.uk> References: <1170772895.9567.4.camel@blobule> <20070206144653.GW5327@mint.phcomp.co.uk> <45C89BCC.1080102@cschneid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45C89BCC.1080102@cschneid.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:16:28PM +0100, Christian Schneider wrote: > 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) No: it was NOT a serious point. What is wrong with the occasional grin ? > ... 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 -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include