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<52DC125C.4010609@ajf.me> In-Reply-To: <52DC125C.4010609@ajf.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Introducing "Array Of" RFC From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev) Hi! > After a little thought, I think I'd rather we use the HHVM syntax here. > Having "Array" for an untyped array but "Bar[]" for a typed one is > silly. "Array" and "Array" make more sense. Being able to type keys > would be nice, too. Except that there's no type "array" in PHP, so we're just inventing things out of the thin air that mean nothing. Just because some other language has common syntax - which in *that* language means something, since they actually have typed arrays. But in PHP it doesn't mean anything except being pulled in to save couple of lines of code. I think we should not do such things in PHP - if we want to have language that makes sense and not just a hodgepodge of random syntax constructs pulled from all over the place and hastily bolted on together - we should not put in any syntaxes that do not make sense in the rest of the language. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227