Hello Sam,

  and here goes the problem, some people here understand the issue a bit
better than others and some people actually do the work because they can and
are being respected for - just by their experience...

Either way there is a clear functional difference. The old array style
syntax looks like a function call, or a contructor. The new one makes one
thing clear, you will get an array.

marcus

Friday, January 11, 2008, 8:09:05 PM, you wrote:

>  On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:06 -0500, Olivier Hill wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 2008 1:47 PM, Sam Barrow <sam@[...].com> wrote:
> > >
> > > True. No one's vote is worth more than anyone else's, everybody should
> > > have equal say. Some people may know more about the PHP core, but we are
> > > all users and developers.
> > 
> > Not when some write anything about everything without knowing anything
> > about nothing (makes sense?)

>  True, however with something like this, it is simply a matter of
>  opinion, not knowledge. [] and array() will have no functional
>  differences.

> > > It is better to have input from people with a wide range of experience
> > > levels, it results in a fairer vote that actually represents the
> > > population, rather than putting PHP under the control of a select few.
> > 
> > It is not under the control of anyone. The principle is: Contribute
> > and your voice will be louder. It's easy to have a CVS account, and
> > it's easy to fix some bugs and submit patches. That way, you prove
> > that your voice can count and that you at least know what you are
> > talking about (I'm not talking about you in particular, but any user
> > that wants to contribute and have a voting voice that counts)

>  True

> > One way could be that votes from internal / phpdoc counts twice as
> > much as people that only leech this list. It's not controlling, but
> > being sure that future decision about the language are made
> > considering the opinions of people really knowing what's at stake.
> > Regards,
> > Olivier




Best regards,
 Marcus


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