On Mon, February 5, 2007 12:24 pm, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>
>> When a new PHP user asks you "What is an array?" you will
>> understand.
>
> If someone is not familiar with the concept of the array at all, it
> doesn't matter if it's written as array(1,2,3) or [1,2,3]. That's not
> what we are discussing right now.
>
>> Its clear that not all the folks on internals have actually spoken
>> to
>> the masses of users whose first language is PHP. People don't start
>
> As opposed to you who did, I presume. So, judging from your
> experience,
> how it is different? How explaining array written as [] so much harder
> that explaining array written as ()? What exactly constitutes the
> problem?
Here's the difference:
You can Google for 'array' and learn a lot.
If you try to Google for [] you don't learn squat.
Try it and see.
So our 'newbie' at least has a good chance of figuring out array(1, 2,
3) on their own. They've got must worse odds of figuring out [1,2,3]
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