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

From: Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:10:52 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntactic improvement to array
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Richard Lynch wrote: > More edge cases: > > $foo = array(1, 2, 3]; > $bar = [1, 2, 3); > > Syntax error because it's unbalancedO > > Or kosher, because the choice of start/end delimiters should > be up to the user? > > Should it match whatever rule is in place for: > > if (...){ > endif; echo("foo.inc"); echo "foo.inc"; $foo = array(1,2,3); $foo = [1,2,3]; echo $foo[0]; echo $foo{0}; $foo = [1,2,3); // parse error echo("foo.inc"; // parse error Come on. This isn't rocket science, even for newcomers. It certainly isn't worthy of the [awesome] level of analysis it's getting. Holy smokes. Best, Mike Robinson

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