Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:71353 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37646 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2014 21:06:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jan 2014 21:06:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=php@golemon.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=php@golemon.com; sender-id=softfail Received-SPF: softfail (pb1.pair.com: domain golemon.com does not designate 209.85.192.175 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: php@golemon.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.192.175 mail-pd0-f175.google.com Received: from [209.85.192.175] ([209.85.192.175:40606] helo=mail-pd0-f175.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 20/BA-02192-0DF8DD25 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:06:25 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f175.google.com with SMTP id w10so2025883pde.20 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:06:22 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=dR9onFd4xbXTGfNOvSHnsDdLAQLBG+agg0rouTSdBnM=; b=Eke5asbQ7gXgd5Ps/imVVnuaRssBpnNO+35DhK5OUFbwoCupAFQM7LebO2QI69hn4B I1+oPA3RxPB1nyLXbHjYgqwKOMpwavoUx7dtO+vMGf3nV9XdRdXje6/KjHsSCow4U2sb XulUbGRhH0BmMwr3RxdvY6mzXqLS3vNVfWWeAaNxy4kmD9ac1zy0MWApH0VfxrPrF/Wz /hFChBLbeR3knoAWD77lNTChVQ4UPVytkVTkwHJRMMVObyeRzOr2I2Ja2zdtqLXvzAlJ p2EzjDh74/QTqWF+qKXXAxSzcaohHwB7I/+/fdE1wN/kpdZshqjKRA6/mL2LLeJ7sHGM /S7g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkFjCCmHnjeMkF7FTSDF9+syfil55T+hfkSjgVZQP85PFakRsA8UmrCvq9FbDQ4/0bwktK/ MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.158.132 with SMTP id wu4mr20900215pab.66.1390251982126; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:06:22 -0800 (PST) Sender: php@golemon.com Received: by 10.70.77.164 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:06:21 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [2001:470:1f09:2fa:22c9:d0ff:fe87:295b] In-Reply-To: <52DD8E98.3010606@sugarcrm.com> References: <0B.B1.24763.139B7D25@pb1.pair.com> <002001cf12da$2bfbda90$83f38fb0$@tutteli.ch> <52DCA3E7.80602@lerdorf.com> <52DCED71.3020207@pthreads.org> <006301cf15f5$22f8df60$68ea9e20$@tutteli.ch> <52DD77E8.8000800@ajf.me> <52DD8E98.3010606@sugarcrm.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:06:21 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: zSoqcWTiRLFIQzDisw2DFlphodI Message-ID: To: Stas Malyshev Cc: "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Introducing "Array Of" RFC From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon) >> Dictionary[] foo <-- Is that *really* what you want an >> array of int->string dictionaries to look like? Really? > > In every (popular) dynamic language on a planet (Perl, Python, Ruby, > Javascript, Lua, Groovy) it looks roughly like that (within syntax > variations): > > foo = [Dictionary()] > > I wonder why it is enough for them? Are they all missing something very > important? > To quote someone who's skill and abilities I respect: "Just because they do it some way in X, doesn't mean it belongs in PHP." Hint, I'm talking about you. -Sara