On 04 February 2007 07:25, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
Overwhelming support from here ;-D
Seriously, I personally find the [...] syntax really elegant and
intuitive, and the array(...) syntax really hard to read and
obfuscating.
A BIG +1
Cheers!
Mike
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