88 messages in net.php.lists.internalsRe: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Christian Schneider | Nov 4, 2003 3:32 pm |  .patch |
| Rasmus Lerdorf | Nov 4, 2003 5:06 pm | |
| Ken Tossell | Nov 4, 2003 5:09 pm | |
| Andi Gutmans | Nov 5, 2003 12:49 am | |
| Michael Walter | Nov 5, 2003 12:59 am | |
| Michael Walter | Nov 5, 2003 1:03 am | |
| Kouber Saparev | Nov 5, 2003 1:47 am | |
| Christian Schneider | Nov 5, 2003 2:06 am | |
| s0niX | Nov 5, 2003 2:43 am | |
| Ford, Mike [LSS] | Nov 5, 2003 3:20 am | |
| Mike Robinson | Nov 5, 2003 3:26 am | |
| Dirkjan Ochtman | Nov 5, 2003 3:45 am | |
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| Ilia Alshanetsky | Nov 5, 2003 5:06 am | |
| Magnus Määttä | Nov 5, 2003 5:07 am | |
| Derick Rethans | Nov 5, 2003 5:18 am | |
| Christian Schneider | Nov 5, 2003 7:34 am | |
| Nicolas Toper | Nov 5, 2003 7:47 am | |
| Ilia Alshanetsky | Nov 5, 2003 7:56 am | |
| Antony Dovgal | Nov 5, 2003 8:03 am | |
| Rasmus Lerdorf | Nov 5, 2003 8:21 am | |
| Christian Schneider | Nov 5, 2003 8:30 am | |
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| Ford, Mike [LSS] | Nov 5, 2003 8:50 am | |
| Marco Tabini | Nov 5, 2003 8:52 am | |
| Christian Schneider | Nov 5, 2003 8:54 am | |
| George Schlossnagle | Nov 5, 2003 8:58 am | |
| Jani Taskinen | Nov 5, 2003 8:59 am | |
| Christian Schneider | Nov 5, 2003 9:00 am | |
| Ford, Mike [LSS] | Nov 5, 2003 9:00 am | |
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| Ford, Mike [LSS] | Nov 5, 2003 9:07 am | |
| Ford, Mike [LSS] | Nov 5, 2003 9:09 am | |
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| Rasmus Lerdorf | Nov 5, 2003 9:45 am | |
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| Jani Taskinen | Nov 5, 2003 9:54 am | |
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| Michael Walter | Nov 5, 2003 10:12 am | |
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| Marco Tabini | Nov 5, 2003 10:28 am | |
| Michael Walter | Nov 5, 2003 10:30 am | |
| Michael Walter | Nov 5, 2003 10:35 am | |
| George Schlossnagle | Nov 5, 2003 10:36 am | |
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| George Schlossnagle | Nov 5, 2003 10:56 am | |
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| Shane Caraveo | Nov 5, 2003 11:12 am | |
| Michael Walter | Nov 5, 2003 12:26 pm | |
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| Robert Cummings | Nov 5, 2003 1:08 pm | |
| David Enderson | Nov 5, 2003 1:19 pm | |
| Sara Golemon | Nov 5, 2003 2:40 pm | |
| George Schlossnagle | Nov 5, 2003 3:00 pm | |
| Wez Furlong | Nov 5, 2003 4:06 pm | |
| Christian Schneider | Nov 5, 2003 5:07 pm | |
| Ard Biesheuvel | Nov 5, 2003 5:27 pm | |
| Christian Schneider | Nov 5, 2003 5:50 pm | |
| Andi Gutmans | Nov 6, 2003 12:03 am | |
| Stig S. Bakken | Nov 6, 2003 12:58 am | |
| Kouber Saparev | Nov 6, 2003 1:24 am | |
| Mike Robinson | Nov 6, 2003 3:31 am | |
| Andi Gutmans | Nov 6, 2003 4:04 am | |
| Ford, Mike [LSS] | Nov 6, 2003 4:09 am | |
| Alexey Trunyov | Nov 6, 2003 4:15 am | |
| Ford, Mike [LSS] | Nov 6, 2003 4:27 am | |
| Sascha Schumann | Nov 6, 2003 4:30 am | |
| Andi Gutmans | Nov 6, 2003 5:28 am | |
| Sascha Schumann | Nov 6, 2003 5:46 am | |
| Stig S. Bakken | Nov 6, 2003 6:32 am |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax | |
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| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf (ras...@lerdorf.com) | |
| Date: | Nov 4, 2003 5:06:56 pm | |
| List: | net.php.lists.internals | |
More magic. The difference between these two lines:
$a = array(1,2,3); $a = [ 1,2,3 ];
is that with the first you can go and look up the array keyword and see what it does, whereas on the second line you have no idea. You can't look up a [
You are right that arrays are common and that this might be a case to break the no-magic PHP rule, but I am personally not in favour of breaking it for this case.
-Rasmus
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Christian Schneider wrote:
I propose to add an alternative (backward compatible) short array creation syntax: $a = [ 1, 2, 3 ]; and $a = [ 'a' => 42, 'b' => "foo" ];
It can also be used in function calls: img(['src' => "logo.gif", 'alt' => "Logo"]);
Reason behind this change: Arrays are used a lot and should therefore have as little syntactic overhead as possible. And I think the short syntax is also easier to read and write.
A patch for the parser is trivial and is attached for Zend2.
Note: I checked the newsgroup archive but couldn't find a discussion about this. After not hearing back about my proposed enhancement to debug_backtrace() and the dangling comma for function call parameters being rejected I wonder if I'm using the right mailing list for this :-)
- Chris