Hello David, Sunday, October 19, 2008, 1:02:21 PM, you wrote:
>>>> >>> shift+;(x3) vs \ >> > Ok I'll try to make a very neutral comment. For the moment most are > still using an english keyboard (no matter which english in this case > and I'd actually be interested in knowing numbers for a fact if > anyone's got something) and ergonomically speaking, ::: is much easier > to type than \ for those who actually learned to type with the adsf > jkl; keyboard. When you learn typing you usually learn to type using > the left-hand side shift key for "most" of the letters/words, for > instance typing : doesn't require a movement of the right hand since > your pinky is already on the ; key whereas the \ key requires a > "not-so-used" movement of the hand. > Anyways, I was just saying that without considering the question > because I absolutely don't feel like redicussing this over and over. > We have had a massive list fight over 3-4 years ago about it and I'm > not getting into this one. All good points :-) So for typing it sounds to me like both would work as a compromise well enough. Also on a german keyboard layout a backslash is in the same category than the ':'. Personally I think however that I would to often confuse myself with typing '::' vs ':::'. Often enough I find myself typing the wrong char, typing delete as many times as necessary to go back to the wrong char and then typing correct again. And in those case I mostly do not look at the screen. I look at the keyboard to ensure I type what I wanted, fixing my hand position, no longer seeing whether that is what I needed to type. And this works for '::' vs '\' becasue they are completely different but I think it does not work for '::' vs ':::', simply becasue that is not a different enough and probably I know what to type always but confusing myself with hitting the key the right amount of times. The other parts are: a) do we need one - I think so - because it means we solve any issue once and forever b) what reads better ':::' or '\'. Personally I think both work fine for me. But I agree with Steph that other people might have a hard time differenciating them. > -- > Slan, > David Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
