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 pe
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
On 09.10.2007 12:48, Ford, Mike wrote:
>> 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 defi
Antony Dovgal wrote:
> Right, so let's force other people to learn crappy unreadable syntax
> duplicating nice and clear function call
Oddly, this "crappy unreadable syntax" doesn't lead to any confusion or
complaints for newbies of languages like python or ruby, judging from
the IRC channels. And
Sure it works fine when it's been in the language for several years and
it's guaranteed to be available in the version provided by your hosting
company.
In reality this isn't the case with PHP so everyone will end up using
the older method to support backwards compatibility or mixing it and
causin
On 09/10/2007, Scott MacVicar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure it works fine when it's been in the language for several years and
> it's guaranteed to be available in the version provided by your hosting
> company.
>
> In reality this isn't the case with PHP so everyone will end up using
> the old
operator is definitely easier because it lets us reuse the same syntax
for strings and arrays (and people would need to learn one operator
Having same syntax mean two different things (string access / array
access) doesn't qualify as "easy" in my book anyway. I know there's a
language which us
Most of the core developers were present at the PDM in Paris where that
item was put on the list.
-Andrei
Antony Dovgal wrote:
From what I understood, most of the core developers agreed that there are no
reasons to implement this syntax, so we're just wasting our time and traffic here.
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