Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)

can we please (please!) focus on voting on the RFC and avoid an enumeration of all possible syntax, formats, ideas, trolls&co we had in the last decade? Simply vote and let us move one. Thanks for your understanding, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Marcel Esser <marcel.esser@croscon.com> wrote: > My kneejerk reaction to this, as no one particularly important, is to not > allow mixing those syntaxes. > > I looked at the RFC a minute ago, and I read a reference to a parallel > solution to this being named parameters. Which, I think, is not accurate. > The problem with the array() notation is definitely at deep nesting levels. > The fact that arrays as arguments suddenly look nicer is basically just a > bonus. I really just don't want to type array() twenty-five times in the > same data structure. > > PS: That is not to say that I wouldn't love named parameters; I would adore > them. I can't count how many times I've thought that a router would benefit > enormously from being able to do that. However, using an array instead > worked fine - and that is cool. > > - M. > > On 6/1/2011 8:01 AM, Arvids Godjuks wrote: >> >> My personal feel about this is that yes, short arrays are not bad, but >> things like >> >> $a = new A; >> $a[array()]; >> >> just scare the crap of me when I see them. To me PHP is easy on syntax >> and it's good. When I see Ruby or Python code with all it's crazy >> magic I feel sick. Still one day I will have to learn one, but that >> doesn't mean PHP should go that way too (i'm not alien to system >> languages, I had some practice with Pascal, Delphi&  C some years ago, >> just wanted to go the WEB path so migrated to PHP). >> >> If it's not too much, it would be good to avoid such strange >> constructs at all, because people are mean and they tend to do bad >> things in code. >> > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org