Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, January 11, 2008 4:13 pm, Sam Barrow wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:52 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: >> On 11.01.2008 22:13, Sam Barrow wrote: >> >> input from many people is great, moreover - it is necessary. >> However, it >> >> is not the same as deciding by arithmetical majority of vot

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-14 Thread Sam Barrow
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:52 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 11.01.2008 22:13, Sam Barrow wrote: > >> input from many people is great, moreover - it is necessary. However, it > >> is not the same as deciding by arithmetical majority of votes of whoever > >> cares to vote on technical questions. >

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-12 Thread Tomi Kaistila
>  and here goes the problem, some people here understand the issue a bit > better than others and some people actually do the work because they can > and are being respected for - just by their experience... I understand the need to have the final decision made by the core developers. Designing b

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-12 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Sam, and here goes the problem, some people here understand the issue a bit better than others and some people actually do the work because they can and are being respected for - just by their experience... Either way there is a clear functional difference. The old array style syntax look

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Pierre
On Jan 12, 2008 1:54 AM, Jeff Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if (1) { > > $a = [ > > [ > > ['a' => 1, 3], > > ($b = 3), > > ] > > ]; > > } else { > > $a = [ > > [ > > ['b' => 1, 3] > > ] > > ]; > > } >

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Gregory Beaver wrote: 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 on

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Gregory Beaver
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 fe

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Antony Dovgal
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 >

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
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. it als

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 12.01.2008 01:08, Pierre wrote: >> > If we were voting on implementing a highly advanced technical feature >> > then yes, people who know what they're talking about should be given >> > more weight, but in this case I don't think so. >> >> You're not going to fix bug reports related to the parse

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Pierre
On Jan 11, 2008 10:52 PM, Antony Dovgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we were voting on implementing a highly advanced technical feature > > then yes, people who know what they're talking about should be given > > more weight, but in this case I don't think so. > > You're not going to fix bug

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 11.01.2008 22:13, Sam Barrow wrote: >> input from many people is great, moreover - it is necessary. However, it >> is not the same as deciding by arithmetical majority of votes of whoever >> cares to vote on technical questions. > > Which is a valid point in most cases, but this is not techni

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Steph Fox
It is better to have input from people with a wide range of experience levels, it results in a fairer vote that actually represents the population, rather than putting PHP under the control of a select few. No, it is not. This has nothing to do with "fairness", as we are not enacting laws, levy

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Sam Barrow
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 11:07 -0800, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > It is better to have input from people with a wide range of experience > > levels, it results in a fairer vote that actually represents the > > population, rather than putting PHP under the control of a select few. > > No, it is not.

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Sam Barrow
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:06 -0500, Olivier Hill wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 1:47 PM, Sam Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > True. No one's vote is worth more than anyone else's, everybody should > > have equal say. Some people may know more about the PHP core, but we are > > all users and devel

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
It is better to have input from people with a wide range of experience levels, it results in a fairer vote that actually represents the population, rather than putting PHP under the control of a select few. No, it is not. This has nothing to do with "fairness", as we are not enacting laws, levy

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Olivier Hill
On Jan 11, 2008 1:47 PM, Sam Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True. No one's vote is worth more than anyone else's, everybody should > have equal say. Some people may know more about the PHP core, but we are > all users and developers. Not when some write anything about everything without kno

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Sam Barrow
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 19:27 +0100, Pierre wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 7:24 PM, Johannes Schlüter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But well in my results I have a problem: For Rasmus's vote I've counted > > a -1 while "as such this syntax is appropriate I think" has to be > > counted as +1. > > There

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Johannes Schlüter wrote: But well in my results I have a problem: For Rasmus's vote I've counted a -1 while "as such this syntax is appropriate I think" has to be counted as +1. I don't understand how you interpreted my view as a -1. I'm somewhat ambivalent about it, but I don't think it woul

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Pierre
On Jan 11, 2008 7:24 PM, Johannes Schlüter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But well in my results I have a problem: For Rasmus's vote I've counted > a -1 while "as such this syntax is appropriate I think" has to be > counted as +1. There is more than that. It is too early to close the poll. I is not

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi Pierre, On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:37 +0100, Pierre wrote: > Yes, you forgot me. And restricting the right to vote to php-src only > is respectless for all the documentation people. Well, any restriction there is hard. I know hat the php-src karma is not the best criteria. We have people with ka

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
I did a short count of the "votes" about the Array Syntax shortcut on the list. I hope I've got everybody right. The results look like that: There was no "vote", in fact. For example, I am for it and I'm sure my "vote" wasn't counted - simply because I already voiced my support for it last tim

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Pierre
On Jan 11, 2008 6:37 PM, Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 4:47 PM, Johannes Schlüter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did a short count of the "votes" about the Array Syntax shortcut on > > the list. I hope I've got everybody right. The results look like that: > > Yes

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Pierre
On Jan 11, 2008 4:47 PM, Johannes Schlüter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did a short count of the "votes" about the Array Syntax shortcut on > the list. I hope I've got everybody right. The results look like that: Yes, you forgot me. And restricting the right to vote to php-src only is re

Re: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Steph Fox
-1 (OK so I'm late...) - Original Message - From: "Johannes Schlüter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP Internals List" Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:47 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax Hi, I did a short count of the "votes" about

[PHP-DEV] SUMMARY: Array syntax

2008-01-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi, I did a short count of the "votes" about the Array Syntax shortcut on the list. I hope I've got everybody right. The results look like that: yesno -- With php-src karma 510 Others16 9 ---