Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5274 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67546 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Nov 2003 23:01:05 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67522 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 23:01:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO longsword.omniti.com) (66.80.117.3) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 23:01:05 -0000 Received: from ip-66-80-117-2.nyc.megapath.net ([66.80.117.2] helo=[10.80.116.129]) by longsword.omniti.com with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.14) id 1AHWe9-0008SL-E8; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:01:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031105224100.44394.qmail@pb1.pair.com> References: <20031105224100.44394.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:00:54 -0500 To: "Sara Golemon" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle) On Nov 5, 2003, at 5:41 PM, Sara Golemon wrote: > FWIW- (And I understand I'm late chiming in on this thread) > > I'm -1 on this syntax. > > It's Perlish and ugly. It is *not* PHP syntax. To continue to play devils advocate, I actually find it C-ish and nice: char foo[] = { "a", "b", "c i told you so"}; George (thinking [] is pretty but disliking alternative syntaxes)