Re: Array syntax []

Hi, On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:40 +0300, Max Antonov wrote: > I use PHP since version 5.0 release > I'd like use this syntax > $a = [ 2,6,9 ]; > $b = ['a'=>1 , 'v'=>'string']; > foo(['bar'=>2, 'test'=null]); The last line is exactly why I won't like such a syntax. Just consider the a bit worse call like foo([1, $a[2]]); I might even construct worse examples, but in the end you'll have to take a quite close look to see what's going on, whereas the array() syntax directly tells you "hey, here's an array", it are just 5 letters, so typing it isn't too hard (especially when using an editor with completion) ... Yes, it's nice in short code, but I think it makes it way harder to read other people's code - and that's already hard enough. (I, myself, would, of course, ( ;-) ) use it "right" but I tend to read more code than I write) johannes