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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array
From: schultz@widescreen.ch (Lars Schultz)

Hi.

> Our 'newbie' at least has a good chance of figuring out
>    $a = [1,2,3]          vs.        $a = array(1,2,3)
> is different than
>    $a = foobar(1,2,3)

I am probably out of my depth here...but I actually find the argument 
about wether to introduce this syntax or not, very entertaining...it's a 
classic example of human individuality. great really;)

The argument against introducing the new syntax, that says, that it's 
less searchable,...well...why not improve the search functionality of 
the php-documentation? it would help with all the other operators (and 
magic functions and language constructs) if the search-function would 
try to match the search-input against operators and constructs, no? I 
know that google won't show anything worthwhile when queried about "php 
[]" or the like...but...the php-documentation is very good and maybe we 
could improve access to it...a newbie could then query all he wants in 
the php-doc page. No good?

Lars