Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:85294 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31314 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2015 14:36:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Mar 2015 14:36:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=vikhudec@yahoo.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=vikhudec@yahoo.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain yahoo.com designates 212.82.96.119 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: vikhudec@yahoo.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.82.96.119 nm6-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com Received: from [212.82.96.119] ([212.82.96.119:35454] helo=nm6-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B6/88-21731-A603C055 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:36:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1426862183; bh=u+t3PeftghjovP3JjmQxRHXMi+4K8KKnxbjlktOX8CY=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=cxQ1/azc+Y4VW+OMl/8s0X6nL9fcgq3J4KUvU393OWWAcQ/SxA7Hdnmr7CwMACo1O94ayABaLHo72H9sSo4IZ0SeZJ55SFf9oQuI24e3x6NUvNLpDXDgGbDfY7yXZ9M2uRJ2h1mwW58kEs7AmekDMhnaP6YwBUsH1wBiFzQrCQsBKGWg/4ozjlY5jRHEgKLEIQzB13hALbOnros+Hk/s1B2FF5Ljg55W0s9lpj7aMPJvHm2SqGy0ne2IIHiW7kCO+NGWDLUUKtQQYS+/gQ5/TcjvsYasefQ6A0QrQiEOQO2CtDsW3mGv0OKQ+yS9xCy6EFz0alIyGTI0PWVHjtrCLw== Received: from [212.82.98.126] by nm6.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Mar 2015 14:36:23 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.74] by tm19.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Mar 2015 14:36:23 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp111.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Mar 2015 14:36:23 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 632908.52641.bm@smtp111.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: pc3c.P4VM1kmdDLcXcUMwOLUMgOuz88VPX1jQtrwuy8cXC. Vp7_E18MxIqqQK_ZKoqrexK604ab3DQOzLSQaSe3uzV0u2uyZXoO_RXGB4Wm gfq9vVvPWzmKEJGPMzC65DDLIsI_CuirsRLGEcuTmAnmfZVqgk0uryeZ1EvR VrgLSdpmF7ptK6Vz1rX3yiWLokEk533KDDNuzo65SeXF..nSxfi2xQ1xEcta tt6oS3JuOA.8fUZ.FCQgE.NeMqndLMO4FoRZUs_uA0Pcunn.tpJqcMBINTqV w0MQti9AyZQUvTjJJLao6aiv7SuK2Ah0nyC.AxhPm0UXf8MRdxV6U.OvHuAY qVKjqVsP61dFq8Ncjdda9KwxDJu8B5zNZrmmYUGrZVzpbRx4Kk9lIvDoNGsR qrYAUQJG_rrTILuSzD0J7bZbgutmBGc8NsbOZoiPcjPbZ9AcWcy2NeUj8I7e QlafWQhiTaHdok4eOmnQYo2Mo4pXrXX6m7EmA1Mc1vF.smqHOHw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: RwGK.6yswBDCDhnjbZq3y.OXT_Xz Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:36:22 +0000 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <15030741.20150320143622@yahoo.com> To: Alex Bowers CC: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: References: <550B5A81.1090706@gmail.com> <550B7189.4040608@gmail.com> <7486C296-7535-4633-AFE2-02E7BBC67BC5@gmail.com> <550C1176.9050307@gmail.com> <550C1AE4.8090607@gmail.com> <550C1DEC.5060706@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar From: vikhudec@yahoo.com (Vik Hudec) Hi Alex, On Fri, 2015-03-20, at 13:38, Alex Bowers wrote: > But I don't think we should only match {} for strings and [] for arrays, > that seems broken to me. Certainly it breaks BC (and would presumably have to wait until PHP 8), but if we were starting from scratch today, why would it make sense to have two syntaxes that do exactly the same thing? Vik