Re: dropping curly braces

I hear a lot of opinions here on the curly braces issue, and while I don't use them, they're not in the way. I'd say let's keep them in. > > As far a code readability and obviousness goes, I doubt anybody would > > guess their way to the $str{5} syntax. If you were new to > > PHP and you > > were going to try to guess how you would get a character offset in a > > string, what would your first guess be? > > Well, it wouldn't be [] because I'd guess that's for array access as in > other > languages. I probably wouldn't guess at all, but look it up, and be very > happy to find it was {}. I remember being very, very surprised to find [] > doing double duty, and glad that {} existed as an alternative. You obviously have no C(++) experience. People with the C-background consider strings to be arrays of characters, and therefor it makes perfect sense to use [], just like it makes sense to use [] for strings in C. I don't see a problem with {} however, and see no reason why it should be removed. I don't find it disturbing when I have to read someone's code containing {}, so why remove it and make a lot of people angry? I don't see the improvement except that certain warm and fuzzy feeling... Ron