Re: dropping curly braces

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Andreas Korthaus wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: > > > > That's the problem - also grep does not know if [] is used for arrays or > > > stings. That's the same for programmers, it's often not easy to conclude > > > from > > > context - that's my point. > > > > grep won't, but php -l will. > > That's true. But what about "reducing complexity"? > > Don't you think it's useful to allow a convention like {} for strings and [] > for arrays, so you can be sure what $str{1} means without looking at any > context? No. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org