Re: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactic improvement to array

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Yes, you will come across it if its added. > I find the Javascript syntax confusing to read as well. However more > importantly I do not see the point in adding this sugar to save 5 chars. Nested arrays become very unreadable with the current PHP syntax. I think killing those 5 chars per array would actually make thing more readable. I don't find: $a = [1 => ['pears', 'apples'], 2 => ['juice', 'oranges']]; any less readable than: $a = array(1 => array('pears', 'apples'), 2 => array('juice', 'oranges')); Quite the opposite actually :) Edin