On Sun, February 4, 2007 1:25 am, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> I thought I may have brought this up a long time ago but couldn't find
> anything in the archives.
> For a long time already I've been thinking about possibly adding a new
> syntax for array(...) which would be shorter. I'd suggest
> [...]. While I am usually not in favor of having more than one way to
> do things, I think it'd look much more elegant especially (but
> not only) for nested arrays.
>
> So what I'm thinking of is:
> array(1, 2, 3) == [1, 2, 3]
> array(1, 2, array("foo", "bar")) == [1, 2, ["foo", "bar"]]
> array("key" => 1, "key2" => 2) == ["key" => 1, "key2" => 2]
>
> $arr = [1, 2, 3]
> vs.
> $arr = array(1, 2, 3)
>
> Well enough examples given :)
> I think it's not worth doing unless there's overwhelming support as
> it's not desperately needed. But I'd be interested to hear
> people's thoughts. It seems implementation shouldn't be an issue but
> I'd have to dive a bit deeper.I somewhat prefer seeing 'array' there so I know what the [bleep] is going on, personally. -0.3 -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
