Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27866 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 72896 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Feb 2007 02:33:58 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 72881 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2007 02:33:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Feb 2007 02:33:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ceo@l-i-e.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ceo@l-i-e.com; 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] ([67.139.134.202:1770] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id AA/1C-18288-59A39C54 for ; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:33:57 -0500 Received: (qmail 65648 invoked by uid 98); 7 Feb 2007 02:34:00 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/2527. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.068206 secs); 07 Feb 2007 02:34:00 -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 0.068206 secs) Received: from localhost (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Feb 2007 02:34:00 -0000 Received: from 216.230.84.67 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:34:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34788.216.230.84.67.1170815640.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <9956EFF9-804D-4CDA-88AC-87DBBD7D1DB1@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> <39419.216.230.84.67.1170718636.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <9956EFF9-804D-4CDA-88AC-87DBBD7D1DB1@gravitonic.com> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:34:00 -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 Tue, February 6, 2007 11:26 am, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> Yes, and it makes life miserable for some of us... >> >> Is that a good reason to extend that misery to yet another operator? > > Richard, please. This is not advanced OO stuff or anything close. > It's an operator. Give PHP users (even newbies) some credit. I was specifically thinking of the sheer number of emails to PHP-General that would result. Even if 90% of the newbies "get it" without any research, and 5% more figure it out from context or reading or trying, there's still a heck of a lot who will end up posting. -- 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?