Re: Proposal: Array syntax
| From: | Marco Tabini | Date: | Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:11:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: Array syntax | ||
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George Schlossnagle wrote:
On Nov 5, 2003, at 1:29 PM, Marco Tabini wrote:I think I've already explained why.$a = [1,2,$b[11]] is semantically inconsistent.How so? Is
foo(array(1,2)); semantically inconsistent? On one hand () is used with a language construct (array()), whereas in the other context it indicates arguments to a function. I think that is what he meant by 'grouping' and 'application'.Actually, I think it meant something else. In any case, semantically you can still think of array() as a function (until you throw in key declarations, of course ;) )
Similar tokens have different syntactical meaning all over the language. Compare '<<' and '<<<'. To me that is no diffent that <variable>[] and [].Again, that's not a good reason to introduce more. Mt.
George (still -1, but because it makes for unmaintainable code, not because it's hard to read)