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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax
From: marcot@tabini.ca (Marco Tabini)

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

I think I've already explained why.

> 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'.
> 

Actually, I think it meant something else. In any case, semantically you 
can still think of array() as a function (until you throw in key 
declarations, of course ;) )

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

Again, that's not a good reason to introduce more.


Mt.

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