Spot on. It has nothing to do with extra typing (and that sort of design is part of what ruined Ruby). My fingers move plenty fast and if extra characters make things more safe or more readable, I'll be the first to sign up. In this case, however, the extra characters just make things messy. 1. The most readable format is pure JSON 2. The most familiar format is pure JSON (because these same developers are almost certainly already using it in their jQuery code) 3. The most compact format is pure JSON 4. The format most consistent with other languages is JSON
John Crenshaw Priacta, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Stockton [mailto:chrisstockto...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 5:23 PM To: Michael Shadle Cc: Pierre Joye; PHP internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux) Hello, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Michael Shadle <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 5 character difference for each array being saved. That's it. At the > expense of syntax highlighters, IDEs, books, all becoming outdated and > need to be updated. For a language construct that has been around for > what, 10 years? > My desire and perhaps the viewpoint of many others to use ":" over "=>" has very little to do with typing a extra character. This feature I have seen brought up on the list time and time again, some 8 years ago being the first. Just recently more people are in favor of it I'm sure largely due to the common use and readability of JSON. I understand this discussion is for "array shorthand syntax.." but I think really people just want to define their data structures like they do in JSON, I would hate to see such a common and familiar syntax be changed just for the sake of principal/familiarity. The take away from this is simply: I think we would be butchering a very clean, precise and extremely familiar syntax if we use => just to be "PHP". -Chris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
