Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-13 Thread David Harkness
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Hutto wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:59 PM, David Harkness > > I learned it early on as well, and I never really liked it. Instead of > > $iFish I would prefer a more descriptive name such as $fishCount. > > What info did you get on hook for the client

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-13 Thread David Hutto
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:59 PM, David Harkness wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: > >> The Hungarian Notation [1] was what I was taught all those years ago >> when I learnt standard C programming. > > > I learned it early on as well, and I never really liked it. In

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-13 Thread David Harkness
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: > The Hungarian Notation [1] was what I was taught all those years ago > when I learnt standard C programming. I learned it early on as well, and I never really liked it. Instead of $iFish I would prefer a more descriptive name such as $fi

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Quadling
On 12 January 2011 20:23, wrote: > Thanks for all the responses to my suggestion.  I realize this would be a > major change, so that's why I also mentioned it as an addition to the > language. > > I'm sure it's just what you're used to, but still being new to all this, it > just makes sense (t

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Per Jessen
Donovan Brooke wrote: > however, from my experience, there is often this kind of problem in > any language, and that is where naming conventions come in very handy. > > I don't know if the PHP community has any standard convention.. One popular naming convention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Per Jessen
Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 12:23 -0800, sono...@fannullone.us wrote: > >> Thanks for all the responses to my suggestion. I realize this would >> be a major change, so that's why I also mentioned it as an addition >> to the language. >> >> I'm sure it's just what you're used

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 15:41, Michael Shadle wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > >>    The @ is an error control operator, used to buffer the output and >> store it in a variable - $php_errormsg.  There's no way that would be >> changed to become an array designator

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Shadle
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: >    The @ is an error control operator, used to buffer the output and > store it in a variable - $php_errormsg.  There's no way that would be > changed to become an array designator (though that doesn't mean your > idea itself is a bad one).

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 14:45, wrote: > I'd like to make a suggestion for a change, or possibly an addition, to the > PHP language. > > I'm learning PHP and have been very excited with what it can do in relation > to HTML.  But when I got to the part about arrays, I was disappointed to see > t

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Joshua Kehn
On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > If you check out the manual pages for those functions as well, you'll > see other related functions. I must say, of any language I've used, the > php.net documentation is by far the best, giving plenty of information > and user comments too. It

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Joshua Kehn
On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:23 PM, sono...@fannullone.us wrote: > Thanks for all the responses to my suggestion. I realize this would be a > major change, so that's why I also mentioned it as an addition to the > language. > > I'm sure it's just what you're used to, but still being new to all this,

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 12:23 -0800, sono...@fannullone.us wrote: > Thanks for all the responses to my suggestion. I realize this would be a > major change, so that's why I also mentioned it as an addition to the > language. > > I'm sure it's just what you're used to, but still being new to all

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread sono-io
Thanks for all the responses to my suggestion. I realize this would be a major change, so that's why I also mentioned it as an addition to the language. I'm sure it's just what you're used to, but still being new to all this, it just makes sense (to me anyway) to have different symbols for diff

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Steve Staples
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 20:58 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > sono...@fannullone.us wrote: > > > I'd like to make a suggestion for a change, or possibly an addition, > > to the PHP language. > > > > I'm learning PHP and have been very excited with what it can do in > > relation to HTML. But when I got

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 11:45 -0800, sono...@fannullone.us wrote: > I'd like to make a suggestion for a change, or possibly an addition, to the > PHP language. > > I'm learning PHP and have been very excited with what it can do in relation > to HTML. But when I got to the part about arrays, I wa

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Donovan Brooke
sono...@fannullone.us wrote: I'd like to make a suggestion for a change, or possibly an addition, to the PHP language. I'm learning PHP and have been very excited with what it can do in relation to HTML. But when I got to the part about arrays, I was disappointed to see that they are designa

Re: [PHP] Array Symbol Suggestion

2011-01-12 Thread Per Jessen
sono...@fannullone.us wrote: > I'd like to make a suggestion for a change, or possibly an addition, > to the PHP language. > > I'm learning PHP and have been very excited with what it can do in > relation to HTML. But when I got to the part about arrays, I was > disappointed to see that they are