I agree. Syntax is good, if we make it work both ways.
-Andrei
On Feb 4, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote:
My 2c - unless we also make it behave like a list() when in assignment
context - I think it will confusing.
So I'm +1 if we make it work as both list() and array(), and -1
otherwise.
Zeev
At 09:25 04-02-07, Andi Gutmans wrote:
Hi,
I thought I may have brought this up a long time ago but couldn't
find anything in the archives.
For a long time already I've been thinking about possibly adding a
new syntax for array(...) which would be shorter. I'd suggest
[...]. While I am usually not in favor of having more than one way to
do things, I think it'd look much more elegant especially (but
not only) for nested arrays.
So what I'm thinking of is:
array(1, 2, 3) == [1, 2, 3]
array(1, 2, array("foo", "bar")) == [1, 2, ["foo", "bar"]]
array("key" => 1, "key2" => 2) == ["key" => 1, "key2" => 2]
$arr = [1, 2, 3]
vs.
$arr = array(1, 2, 3)
Well enough examples given :)
I think it's not worth doing unless there's overwhelming support as
it's not desperately needed. But I'd be interested to hear
people's thoughts. It seems implementation shouldn't be an issue but
I'd have to dive a bit deeper.
Andi
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