On 28.05.2008 11:24, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
know PHP, but have a certain experience with *script languages, i.e. you're
going to do a favor for 1% and confuse the remaining 99%.
percentage is way different. such "short array syntax" is a common
ground for a lot of modern dynamic languages.
People who do not know PHP and come from *script languages are surely
NOT the majority and I daresay their number is infinitely smaller than the
number of people who know array() syntax by heart.
And at last, but not least I don't see anything "more readable and
maintainable" in using square brackets to initialize arrays when the same
brackets are used to access them:
$a = [$a[1][2], 3]; /* wth does this mean? */
initialize variable $a as array, with elements:
0) value-of-key "2" of array located at key "1" of old array $a
1) 3
difficult to "spell", but easy to understand
Will you spell it for me each time I stumble upon such a "readable" construct,
pretty please?
--
Wbr,
Antony Dovgal
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