Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5294 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58649 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Nov 2003 12:29:53 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58615 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2003 12:29:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mrelay-a.lmu.ac.uk) (160.9.128.16) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2003 12:29:53 -0000 Received: from lis-exchange2.lmu.ac.uk ([160.9.35.2]) by mrelay-a.lmu.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1AHjFK-0002Vo-00; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:28:18 +0000 Received: by lis-exchange2.lmu.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:28:06 -0000 Message-ID: <841D90E489448A4F804E1D1B95768BF7D4626F@lis-exchange3.lmu.ac.uk> To: 'Andrei Zmievski' Cc: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:28:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax From: M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk ("Ford, Mike [LSS]") On 05 November 2003 18:39, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2003, Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: > > > > I don't think the number of characters is the main issue here -- > > it's about having a *nicer* set of characters. Personally, I'd be > > still be in favour (although not quite as much) if the proposed > > syntax were [[[1,2,3]]] -- for me, it's about having a syntax that > > shouts *ARRAY* rather than whispers it. > > And array() steps too softly for you? In comparison to [], yes. I mean, I've got used to array() and all, and I'd happily carry on using it if the consensus goes that way, but I'd also switch all my scripts to [] in a twinkling if it became permitted. (Hell, let's face it, you can get used to anything if it's the right tool for the job -- and almost anything's an improvement over spending an afternoon counting parentheses in a LISP program, curly brackets in a B program, or the number of implied REFs in an Algol68 type declaration...!) Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211