On 2009-10-10 12:12:27 -0400, "Lars T. Kyllingstad"
<pub...@kyllingen.nospamnet> said:
Christopher Wright wrote:
Don wrote:
At worst, it would be something like:
exec("description", createArray(procName, arg1, arg2) ~ generatedArgs ~
createArray(arg3, arg4) ~ moreGeneratedArgs);
PHP does this. I haven't used PHP enough to hate it.
I've used PHP a fair bit, and I don't hate its array syntax at all.
(There are plenty of other things in PHP to hate, though.) It's easily
readable, and not much of a hassle to write. But array() in PHP isn't a
function, it's a language construct with special syntax. To create an
AA, for instance, you'd write
$colours = array("apple" => "red", "pear" => "green");
I'm not sure what the D equivalent of that one should be.
Associative array literals:
string[string] s = ["hello": "world", "foo": "bar"];
Note that an "array" in PHP is always a double-linked list indexed by a
hash-table. Writing `array(1, 2, 3)` is the same as writing `array(0 =>
1, 1 => 2, 2 => 3)`: what gets constructed is identical. That's quite
nice as a generic container.
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