At 8:40 PM +0200 2/4/01, Teodor Cimpoesu wrote:
>Lux wrote:
>>
>> Where do I make a formal request for a feature? In Perl or Ruby, I
>> could have said:
>>
>> foo ({ 'var1' => 'value', 'var2' => 'value'});
>>
>> and it is so much more elegant than having to say:
>>
>> $hash = array (
>> 'var1' => 'value',
>> 'var2' => 'value'
>> );
>> foo ($hash);
>>
>> elegance is everything, man.
>>
>> lux
>lux in latin means 'light' right? :) let me enlighten then :-P
> foo ($hash = array('var1'=>'value', 'var2'=>'value'));
>should work.
And just to turn up the wattage a little further (hey, I work for the
University of California whose motto is 'Fiat Lux', menaing either
Lux drives an Italian car or 'Let there be light')...
You don't need the $hash in that function call unless you need to use
it later on in your main program, so you can just say:
foo (array('var1'=>'value', 'var2'=>'value'));
which is basically the same as the Perl or Ruby (??? never heard of
that...) call above, with the addition of array(...). I use the
function(array('param1'=>'value', ...))
syntax a lot instead of individual parameters in function calls. I
don't have to remember function argument order that way.
- steve
>Now, I don't undestand why exactly do you need references. By default
>everything is passed in a referenced manner, if I undestood correct the
>explanation Zeev wrote right after 4.0 was out, or so.
>
>Don't take references like something that will boost your skript speed
>to 200%.
>Use them only when you need them, and to find out when you actually need
>them
>check out an article on references at zend.com.
>
>Now, let me tell you that somehow I agreed with you :) cause I love
>Python way
>of dealing with arrays, but we are in PHP, so we have to figure PHP way,
>not
><your-fav-lang> way.
>
>ciao
>
>-- teodor
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