Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:37975 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2061 invoked from network); 28 May 2008 18:06:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 May 2008 18:06:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=brianm@dealnews.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=brianm@dealnews.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain dealnews.com designates 72.5.90.27 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: brianm@dealnews.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 72.5.90.27 smtp.dealnews.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [72.5.90.27] ([72.5.90.27:34755] helo=smtp.dealnews.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4D/24-10063-C2F9D384 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 14:06:37 -0400 Received: (qmail 28894 invoked from network); 28 May 2008 18:06:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.dealnews.com) (10.1.10.7) by -H with ESMTPS (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted); 28 May 2008 18:06:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 23081 invoked from network); 28 May 2008 18:06:33 -0000 Received: from 17.2.1.10.in-addr.arpa (brianm@10.1.2.17) by -H with ESMTPA; 28 May 2008 18:06:33 -0000 Message-ID: <483D9F29.1000700@dealnews.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:06:33 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1 (Macintosh/2008050714) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike CC: Chris Stockton , Mailing List References: <0412F6FE505049F7901EAB8C61774839@pc> <87.77.15519.9E47C384@pb1.pair.com> <97.F8.15519.1229C384@pb1.pair.com> <483C94EA.90507@zend.com> <483C95DD.6000006@sci.fi> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE01A53A06@us-ex1.zend.net> <1211994665.7621.39.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> In-Reply-To: <1211994665.7621.39.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Short syntax for array literals [...] From: brianm@dealnews.com (Brian Moon) Mike wrote: > In my opinion I don't think PHP would be where it is today if it wasn't > for being so easy to learn and use. > > I attribute this directly to the fact that it didn't use a lot of > "syntax sugar" that is unreadable and can't be "Googled" for. You can't > Google "[]", and my guess is searching PHP.net for "[]" won't return > anything useful either. Can you google for this: $var = 1; $var = "foo"; ? -- Brian Moon Senior Developer/Engineer ------------------------------ When you care enough to spend the very least. http://dealnews.com/