Re: Introducing "Array Of" RFC

Hi! > After a little thought, I think I'd rather we use the HHVM syntax here. > Having "Array" for an untyped array but "Bar[]" for a typed one is > silly. "Array" and "Array<Bar>" make more sense. Being able to type > keys > would be nice, too. Except that there's no type "array<Bar>" in PHP, so we're just inventing things out of the thin air that mean nothing. Just because some other language has common syntax - which in *that* language means something, since they actually have typed arrays. But in PHP it doesn't mean anything except being pulled in to save couple of lines of code. I think we should not do such things in PHP - if we want to have language that makes sense and not just a hodgepodge of random syntax constructs pulled from all over the place and hastily bolted on together - we should not put in any syntaxes that do not make sense in the rest of the language. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227