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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Array syntax []
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

And my stance hasn't changed either:

http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=117060700805108&w=2

Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Andi 2003:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg03896.html
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> Andi's brain evolves 2007:
> http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=117057393530217&w=2
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> And today I'm still +1.
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> I really think by looking at some of the examples I worked through with
> my original posting in February and some of the recent comments the
> majority of people find [] more readable. It's cleaner, shorter and
> comes natural to most people. It's not about saving 5 characters as I
> type quickly, I really feel it's more readable and natural. We're kind
> of odd as a language in that sense i.e. array(...)
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> I think almost everyone here agreed it'd benefit them and maybe the ones
> who don't would go through the same process I went through once they get
> used to it J
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> Andi
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