Re: RFC proposal for alternative list syntax

Hi Thanks all for the feedback - I'm posting back to get some "RFC karma" for my newly created wiki account please - so I can post my RFC - username is "julian" Thanks Regards Julian ________________________________ From: Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> Sent: 28 December 2015 18:40 To: Pierre Joye Cc: PHP internals list; Julian Rhind; Stanislav Malyshev Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC proposal for alternative list syntax On Dec 27, 2015 7:56 PM, "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com<mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Stanislav Malyshev > <smalyshev@gmail.com<mailto:smalyshev@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> // With the new array syntax this has been improved to > >> > >> list ($a, $b) = [1, 2]; > >> > >> // I think this new syntax should logically extend to > >> > >> [$a, $b] = [1, 2]; > > > > list() and array() are two different language constructs, using the same > > syntax for them is a bad idea. > > I tend to agree here but it exists elsewhere and is quite handy. Also > the behavior of this expression, in this case, is obvious. > > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > This could be very nice shortcut to have. Seems intuitive enough; I doubt there'd be any serious confusion over this. You should draft an RFC for this, OP. --Kris