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Subject: Re: Array syntax []
From: penguin@php.net (Peter Brodersen)

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:51:51 -0800, in php.internals andi@zend.com
("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=3Dphp-internals&m=3D117057393530217&w=3D2
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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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- Peter Brodersen