Re: Array Symbol Suggestion

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 12:23 -0800, sono-io@fannullone.us wrote: > Thanks for all the responses to my suggestion. I realize this would be a major change, so > that's why I also mentioned it as an addition to the language. > > I'm sure it's just what you're used to, but still being new to all this, it just > makes sense (to me anyway) to have different symbols for different variable types: > $scalar > @array > #hash > > Since the @ sign is already reserved, maybe there's another symbol that would work better? > I don't know. These are just ideas that I came up with while reading and I thought I'd > throw it out there to see what others thought. > > I like the idea of a naming convention, so that's what I'll do in my scripts. I also > appreciate the heads up on is_string(), is_array(), and var_dump(). > > Thanks again, > Marc If you check out the manual pages for those functions as well, you'll see other related functions. I must say, of any language I've used, the php.net documentation is by far the best, giving plenty of information and user comments too. It's a resource I still can't do without, and I reckon even the old hands on this list would say the same. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk