When a new PHP user asks you "What is an array?" you will understand.
If someone is not familiar with the concept of the array at all, it doesn't matter if it's written as array(1,2,3) or [1,2,3]. That's not what we are discussing right now.
Its clear that not all the folks on internals have actually spoken to the masses of users whose first language is PHP. People don't start
As opposed to you who did, I presume. So, judging from your experience, how it is different? How explaining array written as [] so much harder that explaining array written as ()? What exactly constitutes the problem?
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
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