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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:56:40 -0500
To: Marco Tabini <marcot@tabini.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax
From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle)


On Nov 5, 2003, at 1:29 PM, Marco Tabini wrote:
> $a = [1,2,$b[11]] is semantically inconsistent.

How so?  Is

foo(array(1,2));

semantically inconsistent?  On one hand () is used with a language 
construct (array()), whereas in the other context it indicates 
arguments to a function.  I think that is what he meant by 'grouping' 
and 'application'.

Similar tokens have different syntactical meaning all over the 
language.  Compare '<<' and '<<<'.  To me that is no diffent that 
<variable>[] and [].

George (still -1, but because it makes for unmaintainable code, not 
because it's hard to read)