Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5281 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40220 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Nov 2003 01:50:36 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40196 invoked by uid 1007); 6 Nov 2003 01:50:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20031106015036.40195.qmail@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:50:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031009 X-Accept-Language: de-ch, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20031105224100.44394.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <3FA99EE5.1050209@cschneid.com> <20031106012727.2112.qmail@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20031106012727.2112.qmail@pb1.pair.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 195.226.4.61 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider) Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > spell out your array definitions. The decision has been made a long time > ago to use the array() syntax. Adding alternatives adds nothing but the I was under the impression that syntax changes are possible. Silly me. > Try/catch however are a fundamental extension to the functionality of I couldn't disagree more. I don't think the language really needed it but I'm on my own here, I know. > I can't believe you would seriously consider maintaining your own PHP > branch, only to be able to use dangling commas and [] array syntax. Luckily all my patches are in the 2 to 10 lines range so 'maintain' is too big a word for it. It was done once and I can benefit in all my (thousands of lines of) PHP code now. The Apache/PHP build script already has hooks for patches so little effort, big impact. The joy of open source. I was trying to give something back to the community but the community didn't want it. Tough luck. PHP (and me) are going to survive it :-) - Chris