Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5212 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 75506 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Nov 2003 13:00:17 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 75482 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 13:00:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO asuka.nerv) (24.112.18.98) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 13:00:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 10707 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 13:05:55 -0000 Received: from rei.nerv (HELO dummy.com) (rei@192.168.1.1) by asuka.nerv with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 13:05:55 -0000 Reply-To: ilia@prohost.org To: Christian Schneider , internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:06:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031104233306.34859.qmail@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20031104233306.34859.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Organization: Prohost.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <200311050806.53186.ilia@prohost.org> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) I do not like the new syntax at all. If anything it seems rather unnatural and what do you save, typing of 5 characters that makes it clear that this is an array to even the most novice of users? It certainly not going to make the code any faster and if anything will only add confusion. Firm -1. Ilia