Re: Proposal: Array syntax

George Schlossnagle wrote:

George (thinking [] is pretty but disliking alternative syntaxes)

Ok, let me recap my short visit on this mailing list: 1) Dangling commas in function calls were considered bloat 2) Adding the local vars to debug_backtrace() was silently ignored 3) A prettier array syntax was discarded because it's an alternative On the other hand Sara Golemon wrote:

It's Perlish and ugly. It is *not* PHP syntax. while e.g. private, catch, throw, final were introduced which are Javaesque and ugly. They are *not* PHP spirit of a simple language. But I didn't complain.

After all this I guess I have to maintain my own PHP branch and hope for PHP6 to address some of my issues. Or switch to another language at some point, because a language to me is a tool, not a religion. Anyway, I wish everybody happy hacking, - Chris