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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Square brackets shortcut
From: subjective@gmail.com ("taylor luk")

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+1

firstly, square brackets are natural short cut to array(...) that you can
find in many many language, one may argue this is merely a minor addition.
however, PHP is already a very verbose compare to other language, syntactic
improvements adds up it allows us to create much more readable code.

someone raise up the readability issue of nested array, this is not a
language issue, but rather programming style issue. its up to you to make it
clean or verbose as you want it to be. yes, associative array may can look
awkward. [] is just a short cut, there is nothing stopping you mix and
match.

$lists = array(
    'first' => [ 1, 2 ,3, 4 ] ,
    'second' => [ 45, 33, 19 ]
);

Lastly, one may again argue this will introduce extra workload for tester,
commiter, patchers. This is a new addition to the language, there is no
Backward compatibility issue. This isn't a technical issue, but rather
management issue.

PHP On the language design level hasn't been making much progress, PHP needs
to move forward. proper closure, GC, and this.


On Jan 20, 2008 2:26 PM, Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie@gmail.com> wrote:

> Antony Dovgal wrote:
> > On 10.01.2008 13:07, Ryusuke SEKIYAMA wrote:
> >> Hello, lists,
> >>
> >> I'm tired to type "array()" many times.
> >
> > -1
> >
> > The parser in my head is unable to parse this:
> > <?php
> > $var=["str"];
> > $var["str"]=1;
> > ?>
> >
>
> Eh, that would just come out as
> [ 0 => "str",
>  "str" => 1 ]
>
> Not too problematic in my mind.
> +1 for square brackets.
>
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Best Regards,

Taylor luk

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