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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:02:51 +0200
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Square brackets shortcut
From: jani.taskinen@sci.fi (Jani Taskinen)

I don't remember ever seeing this before, but I'm still very strongly
against this kind of useless syntax sugar..

--Jani


On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 11:36 -0800, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> I recommended (b) a few months back and got shot down :)
> I still like it :)
> 
> Andi
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ryusuke SEKIYAMA [mailto:rsky0711@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:08 AM
> > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > Cc: Marcus Boerger; Stas Malyshev
> > Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Square brackets shortcut
> > 
> > Hello, lists,
> > 
> > I'm tired to type "array()" many times. And I want to
> > declare arrays more easily. So I wrote the patch for
> > zend_language_parser.y which enables to declare arrays
> > with square brackets like some other languages.
> > 
> > Stanislav,
> > Sorry, I'm new in this list and I didn't know about past
> > discussion. As Marcus says, I'd like to ask around again.
> > 
> > 
> > There are three options:
> > 
> >  a) Commit square bracket array shortcut patch
> >     keys and values are separated by colons.
> >     ( http://www.opendogs.org/pub/php-5.3dev-080109-sbar.patch )
> >     e.g.
> >     $a = [1, 2, 3];
> >     $b = ['foo': 'orange', 'bar': 'apple', 'baz': 'lemon'];
> > 
> >  b) Commit square bracket array shortcut patch
> >     keys and values are separated by double arrows.
> >     ( http://www.opendogs.org/pub/php-5.3dev-080109-sbar2.patch )
> >     e.g.
> >     $a = [1, 2, 3];
> >     $b = ['foo' => 'orange', 'bar' => 'apple', 'baz' => 'lemon'];
> > 
> >  c) Reject and keep using `array()'.
> >     e.g.
> >     $a = array(1, 2, 3);
> >     $b = array('foo' => 'orange', 'bar' => 'apple', 'baz' => 'lemon');
> > 
> > These patches include the tests.
> > 
> > Which do you like? I like (a) the best.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 
> > 2008/1/6, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>:
> > > Hello Stanislav,
> > >
> > >   tha makesw three then already, how about we ask around again?
> > > Ryusuke, can you please start a new '[RFC] Square brackets shortcut'
> > thread
> > > to collect opinions and pass along the patch for that?
> > >
> > > I like the anonymous function patch too. It is clean and simple.
> > Maybe you
> > > want to start a second '[RFC] Anonymous functions' thread with that
> > patch.
> > >
> > > Can you also please add tests for both?
> > >
> > > marcus
> > >
> > > Wednesday, January 2, 2008, 7:51:06 PM, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >> the square bracket array syntax patch for PHP 5.3,
> > > >>   http://www.opendogs.org/pub/php-5.3dev-080101-sbar.patch
> > >
> > > > I remember we discussed that already and it was rejected then (even
> > > > though myself and Andi liked it) - did the people that objected
> > then
> > > > change their minds?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >  Marcus
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
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> >  * Ryusuke SEKIYAMA
> >  * rsky0711@gmail.com
> >  */
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