On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > > On 7 Jul 2014, at 15:42, Laruence <larue...@php.net> wrote: > >> 1. "The current patch introduces a new “write context” issue. Namely >> ($foo)['bar'] = 'baz' will not behave this same was as $foo['bar'] = >> 'baz'. In the former case an undefined variable notice will be thrown >> if $foo does not exist, whereas the latter does not throw a notice." >> >> 2. "As these changes only apply to some very rarely used syntax, the >> breakage seems acceptable for PHP 6." >> >> >> I don't think we should introduce a new thing which is not perfect or >> "confused".. it looks like we fixed a mess with a new mess. >> >> it make me think we should : "don't fix it until it is broken” > > We are fixing what is broken here; the variable syntax is counter-intuitive > at the moment, and they make the syntax more consistent overall. > > Also, parentheses in PHP are always a source of issues. I don’t think they’ll > ever quite work properly unless we switch to using an AST-based parser > someday.
then we won't need to temporarily fix it.. anyway, it's just my 2 cents thanks > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > > -- Laruence Xinchen Hui http://www.laruence.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
