On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:46 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
>
> On Mon, February 5, 2007 12:05 pm, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> >> So now we have an invisible operator with a magical symbol '[' which
> >> *sometimes* means create an array, but *sometimes* means to
> >> de-construct an array into individual variables?
> >
> > Yep. We also have an invisible magical operator (), which sometimes
> > means function definition, sometimes means expression grouping,
> > sometimes means delimiter, sometimes means function call and sometimes
> > means regular expression grouping. How do we manage? ;)
>
> How you manage is that a zillion newbies use:
>
> include("foo.inc");
> echo("foo.inc");
>
> and they don't even realize that the () doesn't mean what they think
> it means, and it "just works" because it's a no-op.
It's not a no-op, I'm sure it actually applies parenthesis precedence on
the expression "foo.inc" :) Personally, I use the parenthesis when using
include and require because I prefer it that way... though I don't doubt
some newbies think it's a function *heh*.
Cheers,
Rob.
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