Re: Re: Syntactic improvement to array

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:46 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > > 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. It's not a no-op, I'm sure it actually applies parenthesis precedence on the expression "foo.inc" :) Personally, I use the parenthesis when using include and require because I prefer it that way... though I don't doubt some newbies think it's a function *heh*. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'