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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:39:29 -0800
To: "Ford, Mike               [LSS]" <M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003, Ford, Mike               [LSS] wrote:
> On 05 November 2003 16:48, Ilia Alshanetsky contributed these pearls of
> wisdom:
> 
> > I mean c'mon, is 5 characters that much of a problem and is
> > absolute code clarity not worth those 5 characters? Character
> > efficiency is done in Perl, where you can do things like ~=
> > and @_, but that makes Perl code naturally obfuscated and I do
> > not think that's a good way to go. 
> 
> I don't think the number of characters is the main issue here -- it's about
> having a *nicer* set of characters.  Personally, I'd be still be in favour
> (although not quite as much) if the proposed syntax were [[[1,2,3]]] -- for
> me, it's about having a syntax that shouts *ARRAY* rather than whispers it.

And array() steps too softly for you?

- Andrei