In my opinion I don't think PHP would be where it is today if it wasn't for being so easy to learn and use.

I attribute this directly to the fact that it didn't use a lot of "syntax sugar" that is unreadable and can't be "Googled" for. You can't Google "[]", and my guess is searching PHP.net for "[]" won't return anything useful either.

Using Array() is SELF EXPLANATORY! Anyone can see that, search Google for "Array" and learn something about it.

How many man hours are going to be wasted: 1. Searching for what the heck [] actually is. 2. Explaining to people that [] is the same as Array. 3. Changing coding standards for projects to prevent [] from being used. 4. Enforcing coding standards for projects to prevent [] from being used. 5. Trying to change [] back to Array in hopes of getting code to work on older versions of PHP. 6. All the man hours wasted on it ALREADY that I'm sure could be much better spent getting PHP 5.3/6.0 out.

There are enough roadblocks and other things to worry about already, why would we want to add MORE? Especially for something with so little to gain (if anything at all).

This isn't about "well if you don't like it, don't use it" either, because no matter what it will be forced on people who don't like it eventually. People who like it will be constantly changing Array() -> [] and people who hate it will be constantly changing [] -> Array(). More wasted time.

Just my two cents.

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 08:56 -0700, Chris Stockton wrote: