On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> I thought I may have brought this up a long time ago but couldn't find
> anything in the archives. For a long time already I've been thinking
> about possibly adding a new syntax for array(...) which would be
> shorter. I'd suggest [...]. While I am usually not in favor of having
> more than one way to do things, I think it'd look much more elegant
> especially (but not only) for nested arrays.
>
> So what I'm thinking of is:
> array(1, 2, 3) == [1, 2, 3]
> array(1, 2, array("foo", "bar")) == [1, 2, ["foo", "bar"]]
> array("key" => 1, "key2" => 2) == ["key" => 1, "key2" => 2]
>
> $arr = [1, 2, 3]
> vs.
> $arr = array(1, 2, 3)
>
> Well enough examples given :) I think it's not worth doing unless
> there's overwhelming support as it's not desperately needed. But I'd
> be interested to hear people's thoughts. It seems implementation
> shouldn't be an issue but I'd have to dive a bit deeper.
That gets a big -1 from me, unless you misposed this mail and it should
have ended up on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something ;-)
regards,
Derick
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