Re: Syntactic improvement to array

On Mon, February 5, 2007 12:24 pm, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >> 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? Here's the difference: You can Google for 'array' and learn a lot. If you try to Google for [] you don't learn squat. Try it and see. So our 'newbie' at least has a good chance of figuring out array(1, 2, 3) on their own. They've got must worse odds of figuring out [1,2,3] -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?