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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax
From: cesare@ngi.it (Cesare D'Amico)

Alle 18:48, mercoled=EC 5 novembre 2003, Romans Malinovskis ha scritto:
> > The devs are mostly at the conference now. I think it is easy to
> > discuss. I won't be surprised if cons after that are more than
> > pros.
>
> I think end-user / newbie votes should be rather considered than
> dev's since they are ones who will be learning and getting used to
> this syntax. So why don't place a pool on some php developer website?
> That would be more correct to php real users.

I don't think so. Dev's have an understanding of php as a whole that=20
most people haven't, so they are more clever in judging new features.

Moreover, i agree with Steph:

> I think it would be cool to have the cleaner alternative syntax; I
> think I'd use it *in some situations and not others*, and I think that
> that in itself would make my code virtually unmaintainable by anyone
> else.

This is really a good point to me.

Ciao
     ce
=2D-=20
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