Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5214 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87083 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Nov 2003 13:08:13 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87029 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 13:08:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hanna.linnea.net) (193.45.225.41) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 13:08:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 5088 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 13:08:10 -0000 Received: from rl141.kiruna.se (HELO novell.netiic.com) (193.45.238.241) by ns2.kiruna.se with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 13:08:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:08:10 +0100 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20031105140810.686d4fc3.magnus@php.net> In-Reply-To: <200311050806.53186.ilia@prohost.org> References: <20031104233306.34859.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <200311050806.53186.ilia@prohost.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax From: magnus@php.net (Magnus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4=E4tt=E4?=) On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:06:53 -0500 Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > 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. I totally agree with Ilia. And it doesn't take more than 0.4 seconds to type "array" anyway. array("My 0.2c, " => "Magnus"); -- What does it mean if there is no fortune for you?