Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-20 Thread Roman Ivanov
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: The PHP 6 stuff is still up in the air. The original suggestion was to carry through with the deprecation of [] which I strongly vetoed since it would break everything. We can revisit whether we want to remove {} in PHP 6. I didn't think people had such strong feelings

Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-18 Thread Sascha Schumann
Maybe you have spoken to the wrong people then. Since {} has been advocated for quite some time as the Right Way to access string offsets, basically all PHP books teach that syntax. As such {} is used very frequently. There are vast amounts of code with that syntax. Breaking

Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-18 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
The PHP 6 stuff is still up in the air. The original suggestion was to carry through with the deprecation of [] which I strongly vetoed since it would break everything. We can revisit whether we want to remove {} in PHP 6. I didn't think people had such strong feelings about it. From my chec

Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-18 Thread Sascha Schumann
Hey, you're still alive? Alive and kicking. - Sascha -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-18 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Sascha Schumann wrote: > And it really should not be going away in PHP 6 either. I > don't get why you are suggesting to expend so many resources > as part of a migration effort while it is obvious that there > are no advantages at all in dropping {}. It make

Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-18 Thread Sascha Schumann
And it really should not be going away in PHP 6 either. I don't get why you are suggesting to expend so many resources as part of a migration effort while it is obvious that there are no advantages at all in dropping {}. It makes no sense. - Sascha On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Rasm

Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-18 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Matthias Pigulla wrote: Even the attempt of trying to change or remove some language feature like the {} thing IN A RC5 is unbelievably unprofessional. For the 13th time. {} is not going away in 5.1. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http: