Re: Array Symbol Suggestion

On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:23 PM, 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 > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > This would make sense to me for a compiled or strongly typed language, but no other language (that I've know of) uses this format. I haven't used Perl. In a dynamically typed language you normally have duck typed variables. # Python a = "Hello" b = 12 // JavaScript a = "Hello"; b = 12; c = [1, 2, 3]; // PHP $a = "Hello"; $b = 12; $c = array(1, 2, 3); Unless I'm misunderstanding the question? Regards, -Josh ____________________________________ Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com