Re: Re: Syntactic improvement to array
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:46:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Syntactic improvement to array | ||
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On Mon, February 5, 2007 12:05 pm, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> So now we have an invisible operator with a magical symbol '[' which
>> *sometimes* means create an array, but *sometimes* means to
>> de-construct an array into individual variables?
>
> Yep. We also have an invisible magical operator (), which sometimes
> means function definition, sometimes means expression grouping,
> sometimes means delimiter, sometimes means function call and sometimes
> means regular expression grouping. How do we manage? ;)
How you manage is that a zillion newbies use:
include("foo.inc");
echo("foo.inc");
and they don't even realize that the () doesn't mean what they think
it means, and it "just works" because it's a no-op.
*THAT* is harder to explain than just about anything in PHP syntax.
How many newbies will be trying:
array[1, 2, 3];
and left scratching their heads when it doesn't work?
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