Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34756 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88419 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Jan 2008 23:36:53 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88404 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2008 23:36:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jan 2008 23:36:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=tony@daylessday.org; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=tony@daylessday.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain daylessday.org designates 89.208.40.236 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: tony@daylessday.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 89.208.40.236 mail.daylessday.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [89.208.40.236] ([89.208.40.236:45927] helo=daylessday.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7F/6D-04761-39DF7874 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:36:52 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.34] (ppp85-140-253-212.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [85.140.253.212]) by daylessday.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690A16401E6; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:36:50 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <4787FD90.2090501@daylessday.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:36:48 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Griffiths CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <1200066425.7376.9.camel@johannes.nop> <1200075842.16083.44.camel@johannes.nop> <1200077257.12559.7.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <4787BE7C.6080205@zend.com> <1200078780.12559.14.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <4787E50A.1000108@daylessday.org> <4787EF30.8000306@daylessday.org> <4787F9A4.2080700@activestate.com> In-Reply-To: <4787F9A4.2080700@activestate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal) On 12.01.2008 02:20, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > Antony Dovgal wrote: > ... >> Well, to me it matters whether the author is going to care of the thing he's >> proposing or he's going to disappear right after it's implemented. > > I didn't realize there was a section of the code flagged 'syntactic > sugar' and only a few people maintained that part. Only a few people maintain the whole project. And that's not a secret. > it also seems ridiculous to debate a syntax *addition* such as this in terms of > maintainability. Is it really is hard to maintain this patch to the parser? Oh, so now we're going to add any new syntax proposed, just because it's so easy to maintain? > How hard is it to maintain this: > > $array[] = $foo; > > ...vs any other part of the codebase? Would you like to try & see? =) -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal