Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:37830 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47338 invoked from network); 23 May 2008 15:06:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 May 2008 15:06:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lars@strojny.net; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lars@strojny.net; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain strojny.net designates 78.46.69.2 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lars@strojny.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.46.69.2 milch.schokokeks.org Received: from [78.46.69.2] ([78.46.69.2:38670] helo=milch.schokokeks.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id AC/C0-35754-09DD6384 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 11:06:57 -0400 Received: from [10.33.3.179] (colt-d53d2146.colt.mediaventures.de [::ffff:213.61.33.70]) (AUTH: PLAIN lars@schokokeks.org, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,CAMELLIA256-SHA) by milch.schokokeks.org with esmtp; Fri, 23 May 2008 17:06:53 +0200 id 000000000000C014.000000004836DD8D.000067CF To: Marco Cc: "Astro [GTalk]" , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <2fd662a00805230751s358ca3e8h13e372491cb44170@mail.gmail.com> References: <2fd662a00805230751s358ca3e8h13e372491cb44170@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:06:53 +0200 Message-ID: <1211555213.14479.10.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=_milch.schokokeks.org-26575-1211555213-0001-2" X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.0 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6 new syntax use suggestion From: lars@strojny.net (Lars Strojny) --=_milch.schokokeks.org-26575-1211555213-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Marco, Am Freitag, den 23.05.2008, 16:51 +0200 schrieb Marco: > I can't see any real benefit of this change apart from a WTF factor... > its possible i'm missing something though! Whats the benefit apart > from saving a line of code? The fact that this syntactic variant is available *and used* in a lot of other popular languages (JavaScript, Ruby, Python) might be an indicator, that it is helpful. The use-case has been illustrated before and is still valid, except that for the specific function there was a better alternative. The use-case is, in short: "a function/method which reliably returns an array with fixed keys and you want to use a single key". cu, Lars --=_milch.schokokeks.org-26575-1211555213-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJINt2MAAoJECQPF+sCY6wHbg0P/1EOXOPcGS49IxyyHpkLwOTK ek7N/oUcSofTT0NkdVOyf1oDnsHeS4jiJZ1gPxB9RTlJq3zORebSM0RDkc0G6UWs GXNLa1H+9QR2d8KqNngQj6sgZ2PgkOquNIQaANxUUUD6ORrez+JiaiCJ1znfrt3Z OQENAcY2kHbwKFxFS9lC7ZO+vFu6q6+A0KWwIuSaKAQulYz1G5f4MkiBYegU1NTB avcYfOVLQSZnJtL/mnwGHTRdm0z2qYyjGZVJEeKJQbetfzzHQ31Wrz+VRlPfcgmf GwCO3VccbG0acCXoplSwWD0S8a5ViDN1jURXMjZujbkFhEGFVAfN26UkjPxBlcIO lvzjjUgngUU/f5GgbJv7RapUl4S5TGlxbv9HJ9DkLoR26rlRF7hTJAq3MOVVQmZZ kcrhMVlK3V29nZzk7bASNKYQV+hwLiWLWzJQ4RTi7YoAXUF2lJk/4PVuFv5Fv5+v 5f14UPc8SUUOvl2pEn0pPwtzPEXwLe4ZEaIoacIIky9phGjuR484pQoB68qOYm/h 9HDT2ybod4j83wUXSlzN/GlJfB+rQQB8tzvDyQpY3ZILLlDoI0t+Wtx4ui0XS9K4 KG2Vt4KeIr0DrwuF4aDOIKmhnnQqA1MBG+NIh8IkqDwFb3ExJ0Kn0EgZztQaCA8i bTeTR2LrfulGKguY1WVN =PBFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_milch.schokokeks.org-26575-1211555213-0001-2--