Re: [RFC] Square brackets shortcut
| From: | Geoffrey Sneddon | Date: | Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:39:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Square brackets shortcut | ||
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On 11 Jan 2008, at 14:28, Mark Dennehy wrote:
Maybe I did not express myself well enough: this introduces a new syntax for something that isn't broken that doesn't work on existing PHP versions. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>It doesn't break backwards compatibility; the new syntax is an alias, not a replacement. The older array() syntax will still be in place, if I've understood the earlier posts correctly.b) Commit square bracket array shortcut patch keys and values are separated by double arrows.Breaks backwards compatibility to save typing five characters. See above. -1.