On 09 October 2007 08:18, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 09.10.2007 10:57, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > > How come? > > > It looks like you're reading $bar[':5'], but forgot the quotes. > > > On the other side, what could be easier than a function call? > > > > operator is definitely easier because it lets us reuse the same > > syntax for strings and arrays (and people would need to learn one > > operator instead of 2 functions and 2 different concatenation > > operators) > > Yes, I see this quite often in the list: "let's invent a new thing > instead of an old thing, that would make peoples' life easier". > > But you forget that both the old and the new thing would co-exist > and people would have to learn BOTH, which definitely doesn't make > any life easier.
You have to be joking!!! People would only *have* to learn one -- whichever they prefer to use. You'd get some people routinely using one, and others routinely using the other -- but *all* of them would be happier using the version they prefer, instead of half of them being pissed off at having to use a crappy unreadable function call instead of a nice, readable alternative syntax. (Just MHO, of course.) Variety is the spice of life, after all! Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, JG125, The Headingley Library, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 113 812 4730 Fax: +44 113 812 3211 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm
