Re: Syntactic improvement to array

Hello Andi, it is a bit harder to read and not the php way imo. best regards marcus Sunday, February 4, 2007, 8:25:22 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > I thought I may have brought this up a long time ago but couldn't find anything in the > archives. > For a long time already I've been thinking about possibly adding a new > syntax for array(...) which would be shorter. I'd suggest > [...]. While I am usually not in favor of having more than one way to do > things, I think it'd look much more elegant especially (but > not only) for nested arrays. > So what I'm thinking of is: > array(1, 2, 3) == [1, 2, 3] > array(1, 2, array("foo", "bar")) == [1, 2, ["foo", > "bar"]] > array("key" => 1, "key2" => 2) == ["key" => 1, > "key2" => 2] > $arr = [1, 2, 3] > vs. > $arr = array(1, 2, 3) > Well enough examples given :) > I think it's not worth doing unless there's overwhelming support as it's > not desperately needed. But I'd be interested to hear > people's thoughts. It seems implementation shouldn't be an issue but I'd have to > dive a bit deeper. > Andi Best regards, Marcus