Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:92186 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26014 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2016 02:41:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Apr 2016 02:41:51 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 68.118.157.39 68-118-157-39.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com Received: from [68.118.157.39] ([68.118.157.39:19050] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CC/56-03277-E6DB9075 for ; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:41:50 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: <45.34.48788.AC056075@pb1.pair.com> <2FE38293-36DB-4C5A-9FCE-27541D658A01@gmail.com> <57065470.1010107@lsces.co.uk> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 21:41:47 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57065470.1010107@lsces.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 68.118.157.39 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Square bracket syntax for array destructuringassignment From: me@stephencoakley.com (Stephen Coakley) On 04/07/2016 07:37 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > > Do we really need to make everything so shorthand that one has no idea > what one is looking at when scanning code? > That's the goal right? We're trying to make Perl 7 here. Just kidding. I like it because it makes the syntax look consistent with the already available short array syntax. -- Stephen