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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:39:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] simpler syntax for arrays
From: jay.27182818@gmail.com ("Jay I.")

interesting idea, thanks. but unfortunately it won't help me as i really
need to pass arrays as a single argument like this:

my_func($param_1,$param_2,array(...));

i'm unaware of how to make patches for php so i wonder is it possible to
add a dollar sign shortcut for array keyword. like this:

my_func($param_1,$param_2,$(1, 2, 3));

regards,
jay

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 12:20 +0100, Christian Schneider wrote:
> jay wrote:
> > okey. another syntax:
> > myfunc($('key1'=>'val1', 'key2'=>'val2', ...));
> 
> This has been discussed and rejected several times.
> 
> If you still want to be able to use this syntax you can use my patch at
> 	http://cschneid.com/php/
> including a script to convert from and to this syntax.
> We use this in our production environment so the patch will be updated
> for future PHP versions ;-)
> 
> If you want to use it in an environment where you cannot patch PHP you
> could use our toolkit which provides an auto_prepend file with
> just-in-time translation from new to old syntax.
> See: http://itools.search.ch/
> 
> Regards,
> - Chris