Antony Dovgal wrote:
...
>  Well, to me it matters whether the author is going to care of the thing he's 
>  proposing or he's going to disappear right after it's implemented.

I didn't realize there was a section of the code flagged 'syntactic 
sugar' and only a few people maintained that part. it also seems 
ridiculous to debate a syntax *addition* such as this in terms of 
maintainability. Is it really is hard to maintain this patch to the 
parser? How hard is it to maintain this:

$array[] = $foo;

...vs any other part of the codebase?

I think a lot of web developers who use PHP would agree with Rasmus' 
sentiment[1]:

"What is clear and understandable to web developers is a moving target.
As someone mentioned, nobody who does any sort of web development today
can ignore Javascript and they will typically be switching back and
forth between Javascript and PHP every couple of minutes.  This is our
target user these days and as such this syntax is appropriate I think."

[1] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=117060700805108&w=2

Jeff

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