Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34784 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 85013 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Jan 2008 17:44:26 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 84997 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2008 17:44:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jan 2008 17:44:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sam@sambarrow.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sam@sambarrow.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain sambarrow.com from 205.234.132.11 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sam@sambarrow.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 205.234.132.11 scottsdale.servershost.net Received: from [205.234.132.11] ([205.234.132.11:35590] helo=scottsdale.servershost.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 07/05-55000-77F9B874 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:44:23 -0500 Received: from wsip-98-172-154-66.dc.dc.cox.net ([98.172.154.66]:42051 helo=[10.200.100.14]) by scottsdale.servershost.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JETME-0003Hj-3A; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:44:22 -0600 To: Antony Dovgal Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4787E50A.1000108@daylessday.org> 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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:13:08 -0500 Message-ID: <1200089588.12559.25.camel@sbarrow-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - scottsdale.servershost.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sambarrow.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax From: sam@sambarrow.com (Sam Barrow) On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:52 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 11.01.2008 22:13, Sam Barrow wrote: > >> input from many people is great, moreover - it is necessary. However, it > >> is not the same as deciding by arithmetical majority of votes of whoever > >> cares to vote on technical questions. > > > > Which is a valid point in most cases, but this is not technical, it's > > purely syntactic. > > Surely it's technical, doesn't matter what exactly it's supposed to > affect - its syntax or its functionality. > > > If we were voting on implementing a highly advanced technical feature > > then yes, people who know what they're talking about should be given > > more weight, but in this case I don't think so. > > You're not going to fix bug reports related to the parser, or are you? I don't know exactly what you mean, and what does that have to do with anything? All I said was a simple fact. This is syntactic, not functional. Some people like looking at square brackets while some don't. Nobody on this thread is more qualified than anybody else on this subject, it's only a matter of opinion. That's it. > -- > Wbr, > Antony Dovgal >