Re: Re: Syntactic improvement to array

That would be very handy. As I code frequently JavaScript and ActionScript, I will use this feature with pleasure. +2 for me :D The array(), especially for more-than-1 dimensional arrays is very cumbersome. Best Regards, Ivailo Karamanolev On Monday, February 5, 2007, 12:53:44 PM, LAUPRETRE François<francois.laupretre@ratp.fr> wrote: >> From: Christian Schneider [mailto:cschneid@cschneid.com] >> What's also beautiful about [] IMHO is the symmetry of the syntax, >> list() and array() are asymmetrical which I always found inferior. > Agree. +1 for me, especially for this reason, even after reading Greg's examples :) IMO, > it is > more important to provide an elegant alternative to list() than a new syntax for array(). >> >> >> - func('foo' => $foo, 'bar' => $bar, ...) equivalent >> >> to >> >> func(array('foo' => $foo, 'bar' => $bar, ...) > Argh! Reading such a line, I think of named parameters, not an array. Ugly, confusing. -1 for > me. Definitely. > May I add that, as I regularly write multi-layer arrays as SOAP return values, I personnaly > like this proposed syntax. > Francois >