Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38039 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56282 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2008 05:50:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jun 2008 05:50:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:6212] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 07/2D-54820-88832484 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:50:00 -0400 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 08:51:11 +0300 Received: from [192.168.17.82] ([192.168.17.82]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 31 May 2008 22:46:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4842377B.8060102@zend.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:45:31 +0300 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lester Caine CC: PHP Developers Mailing List References: <0412F6FE505049F7901EAB8C61774839@pc> <1212087326.20983.22.camel@goldfinger.johannes.nop> <1212097521.2979.11.camel@goldfinger.johannes.nop> <483F3641.1070500@zend.com> <483FA731.8050205@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <483FA731.8050205@lsces.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jun 2008 05:46:52.0491 (UTC) FILETIME=[E476D9B0:01C8C3AA] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Short syntax for array literals [...] From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > I'm probably in the 'nay' camp, but purely because I can't see any > reason to take several years of existing code base and changing it. So I wish I had any idea about how we got to changing existing code base. No one ever suggested removing array() syntax. > syntax but rather just adding something else to slow down processing Adding one extra clause to parser is not going to slow down anything in any noticeable sense. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com