Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:74679 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 42266 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2014 19:46:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jun 2014 19:46:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.248 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.248 imap7-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [198.187.29.248] ([198.187.29.248:33703] helo=imap7-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 11/25-15017-C138B835 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 15:46:37 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B70A6037A; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:46:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap7.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id E03NvdOveD1p; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:46:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.200] (unknown [90.203.28.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4970F60378; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:46:31 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) In-Reply-To: <538B802B.3060703@sugarcrm.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 20:46:28 +0100 Cc: PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <88D62344-79A3-4DF6-B59B-786A3E65034A@ajf.me> References: <6E3D6B3F-1BD6-42A2-B59C-12B9D6D597ED@ajf.me> <538B6D49.3030402@sugarcrm.com> <2F19394F-C75C-40E8-94C3-507FAA9ADE28@ajf.me> <538B802B.3060703@sugarcrm.com> To: Stas Malyshev X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Bare Name Array From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 1 Jun 2014, at 20:34, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! >=20 >> Well, we already replaced array() with [].=20 >=20 > That was readability improvement. But it's not a license to make the > language unreadable without any real gain in readability. I don=92t think readability would be hurt. [ key: value ] is as easy to = understand as [ =93key=94 =3D> value ], and likely very familiar to = people who have dealt with JavaScript or JSON. The :> operator does not = look too far off from -> or =3D>, too, though again, I=92m willing to = use a better alternative if one exists. It also happens to be the C99 digraph for ], take that as you will. :) -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/