After that argument, I think I'm against ":" now too. +1 to "=>"
Could "{ }" be implemented for objects too then?.
Regards,
David
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Ford, Mike <m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ekne...@gmail.com [mailto:ekne...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> > Etienne Kneuss
> > Sent: 01 June 2011 01:57
> > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)
> >
> > +1 for a short array syntax.
> >
> > But only if you keep it consistent, PHP has always been using => for
> > key/val association, I don't see any reason to suddenly provide
> > "key":
> > "val", unless what you want is to confuse people.
>
> Hear, hear and hear, hear to that!
>
> ['a': 'b'] just feels completely un-PHP-like, and I'd be totally
> against it.
>
> If the desire is to have a "native" JSON syntax so that you can eval()
> imported JSON, then I'm completely anti that, too -- that's a case
> where I'd far rather be explicit and use json_decode(). And since, no
> matter how you slice it, you're never going to get a complete fit
> between native PHP structures and JSON encoding, I don't believe you
> should even try.
>
> I just can't see the problem with saying: PHP arrays (and maybe
> objects?) look like *this*, and if you want to import/export them
> from/to a JSON representation, there are functions to do it like
> *this*. This seems to be the perfectly sensible approach of other
> languages I've used recently (although my perl is somewhat out-of-date,
> and my python even more out-of-daterer and minimal at that!). Even
> ECMAScript is going down the route of explicit conversion with
> JSON.parse() and JSON.stringify() in ECMAScript 5!
>
> All in all, still +1 for [1, 2=>2, 'a'=>'b'], and -several million (for
> style) for any syntax involving colons.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
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