That's because you wouldn't be using those words with a newbie, if
you are smart. You'd simply say "it works like list() here" and "it
works like array()" here.
-Andrei
On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
On Mon, February 5, 2007 12:06 pm, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
On Feb 4, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
Ewwwwwwww!
So now we have an invisible operator with a magical symbol '[' which
*sometimes* means create an array, but *sometimes* means to
de-construct an array into individual variables?
That's just disgusting, imho.
-1 !!!
The way I view [] is that it creates an array "context". When the
context is an RHS, it instantiates an array. When it's an LHS, the
context deconstructs the array.
I can 'splain list() to a newbie and get them to understand it as an
array deconstructor function thingie, and usually succeed in one or
two tries to get it into their heads.
I don't think I can do that with [] and LHS and RHS in anything like 2
tries... More like 10 times, probably.
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