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Cc: Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>,
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On 1 Mar 2014, at 15:08, Philip Sturgeon <pjsturgeon@gmail.com> wrote:
> This should not even be seen as a rush to implement a weak version
> that ruins things and gives us a weird double syntax. It should be
> seen as a simple version then if later on generics are implemented
> they are a much more powerful feature which has a different syntax.
> People can use [] without ever having to understand the complexity of
> generics and templates and all that.

People can also use Array<Foo> without fully understanding generics.

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