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Re: Re: Syntactic improvement to array

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Richard Lynch

19 years ago
More edge cases: $foo = array(1, 2, 3]; $bar = [1, 2, 3); Syntax error because it's unbalancedO Or kosher, because the choice of start/end delimiters should be up to the user? Should it match whatever rule is in place for: if (...){ endif;
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Mike Robinson

19 years ago
Richard Lynch wrote:
> More edge cases: > > $foo = array(1, 2, 3]; > $bar = [1, 2, 3); > > Syntax error because it's unbalancedO > > Or kosher, because the choice of start/end delimiters should > be up to the user? > > Should it match whatever rule is in place for: > > if (...){ > endif;
echo("foo.inc"); echo "foo.inc"; $foo = array(1,2,3); $foo = [1,2,3]; echo $foo[0]; echo $foo{0}; $foo = [1,2,3); // parse error echo("foo.inc"; // parse error Come on. This isn't rocket science, even for newcomers. It certainly isn't worthy of the [awesome] level of analysis it's getting. Holy smokes. Best, Mike Robinson

Andrei Zmievski

19 years ago
Now you're just grandstanding. -Andrei On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:

Richard Lynch

19 years ago
Actually, this one was prompted by seeing a bug fix or changelog about requiring { } and : endif; to match up, rather than accepting either/or in balance. Synchronicity that I even saw that item, but there it is. I would HOPE that they'd have to balance, but if they don't for the long block syntax instead of braces, maybe they shouldn't. Once you have two ways to delimit start and end, you ought to nail down what does or doesn't work. The Regex thing with < and > for start/end delimiters is also a counter-example of what other people seem to like. I prefer not to take things for granted when defining new syntax, personally. On Tue, February 6, 2007 11:28 am, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> Now you're just grandstanding. > > -Andrei > > > On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> More edge cases: >> >> $foo = array(1, 2, 3]; >> $bar = [1, 2, 3); >> >> Syntax error because it's unbalancedO >> >> Or kosher, because the choice of start/end delimiters should be up >> to >> the user? >> >> Should it match whatever rule is in place for: >> >> if (...){ >> endif; >> >> >> >> -- >> Some people have a "gift" link here. >> Know what I want? >> I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. >> http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch >> Yeah, I get a buck. So? >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
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