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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] substr/array_slice in []
From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal)

On 06.10.2007 22:38, Larry Garfield wrote:
> I have no love for Perl (and a rather strong dislike of it), but I have to 
> agree with those who say that "looks like Perl" is a lame reason to reject 
> something.  PHP's object system looks an awful lot like Java, too.  That 
> doesn't make it bad.  
> 
> "Too unreadable", "not approachable enough", "too inflexible", etc. are 
> perfectly valid reasons to reject a syntax.  "Looks like <insert language 
> here>" is not, I content, one of them.

I believe it should be pretty clear that "too perlish" means "too cryptic 
and makes no sense because it duplicates already implemented functionality
(more than one way to do it, yeah)".

But "too perlish" is much shorter.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal