Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5272 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40005 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Nov 2003 21:20:21 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39948 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 21:20:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.digitalims.net) (216.58.226.166) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 21:20:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 8473 invoked by uid 778); 5 Nov 2003 21:20:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO corp.digitalims.com) (65.221.143.39) by mail.digitalims.net with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 21:20:21 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:20:20 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax Thread-Index: AcOj4PpFG7GzwGDGQ/GzQhqbk/snKQAAUmEQ To: "Robert Cummings" Cc: Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax From: DEnderson@DigitalIMS.com ("David Enderson") Robert, And I don't agree with it either. I like quick, but I don't like dirty. I just thought from what I'd read on this list over the last year that it was a goal. You may be correct that I misinterpreted the current goals of the language, and I'll be happy if you are right. :-) --David > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Cummings [mailto:robert@interjinn.com]=20 > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:09 PM > To: David Enderson > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax >=20 >=20 > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:03, David Enderson wrote: > >=20 > > I believe the ultimate goal of PHP is to have a "quick and dirty"=20 > > language that is easy to read, use, and learn. While=20 > Rasmus's comment >=20 > I complete disagree with the "quick and dirty" statement.=20 > Maybe at one time, but I think a lot of effort has gone into=20 > PHP in recent years to entertain consistency and quality. As=20 > for the new syntax, *shrug*, I'm happy with the array()=20 > function syntax, but could care less if it were implemented.=20 > I guess I'm -0 :) >=20 > Cheers, > Rob. > --=20 > .------------------------------------------------------------. > | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | > :------------------------------------------------------------: > | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | a=20 > | powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | such as=20 > | forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | > | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | > | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | > `------------------------------------------------------------' >=20