fyi - i added a RFC
http://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortsyntaxforarrays
please add your votes
cheers
Sebastian
Sebastian Deutsch schrieb:
dont have karma - but I would love it! so +1 here.
would it make sense to write an RFC?
cheers
Sebastian
Stan Vassilev | FM schrieb:
Hi,
I hear this often by other developers and I tend to agree with them,
that arrays are used often, and often nested, so that having a long
syntax for array literals tend to produce less legible code than in
other scriping languages.
$a = array(array(1,2), array(3,4), 5, 6);
$b = array('a' => 1, 'b' =>2);
We use arrays in our configurations, in passing complex parameters to
functions, fetching information from databases, basically everything.
So it adds up.
Some frameworks have somewhat funny attempts to remedy this by
introducing "shortcuts" like this: function a() { return
func_get-args(); }. Of course this doesn't work when you need to
specify the key name, and the overhead isn't worth it.
It looks as there may not be a specific reason not to allow the JS
syntax as an alternative syntax (while keeping the current one in
parallel):
$a = [[1, 2], [3, 4], 5, 6];
$b = ['a' => 1, 'b' =>2];
There shouldn't be confusion to the parser as the brackets aren't
preceded by an identifier.
Was this discussed before on the list?
Regards, Stan Vassilev
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