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

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 19:38 +0100, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > 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 :) Depends on how you format multi-level arrays... $a = array ( 1 => array ( 'pears', 'apples', ), 2 => array ( 'juice', 'organge', ), ); In the new format... $a = [ 1 => [ 'pears', 'apples', ], 2 => [ 'juice', 'organge', ], ]; Can't say that I see a terribly great advantage in readability. -0 :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'