Re: Re: Short syntax for array literals [...]

On 28.05.2008 11:24, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:

know PHP, but have a certain experience with *script languages, i.e. you're going to do a favor for 1% and confuse the remaining 99%.

percentage is way different. such "short array syntax" is a common ground for a lot of modern dynamic languages.

People who do not know PHP and come from *script languages are surely NOT the majority and I daresay their number is infinitely smaller than the number of people who know array() syntax by heart.

And at last, but not least I don't see anything "more readable and maintainable" in using square brackets to initialize arrays when the same brackets are used to access them: $a = [$a[1][2], 3]; /* wth does this mean? */

initialize variable $a as array, with elements: 0) value-of-key "2" of array located at key "1" of old array $a 1) 3 difficult to "spell", but easy to understand

Will you spell it for me each time I stumble upon such a "readable" construct, pretty please? -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal