On 12.01.2008 02:20, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > Antony Dovgal wrote: > ... >> Well, to me it matters whether the author is going to care of the thing he's >> proposing or he's going to disappear right after it's implemented. > > I didn't realize there was a section of the code flagged 'syntactic > sugar' and only a few people maintained that part.
Only a few people maintain the whole project. And that's not a secret. > it also seems ridiculous to debate a syntax *addition* such as this in terms > of > maintainability. Is it really is hard to maintain this patch to the parser? Oh, so now we're going to add any new syntax proposed, just because it's so easy to maintain? > How hard is it to maintain this: > > $array[] = $foo; > > ...vs any other part of the codebase? Would you like to try & see? =) -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php