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array() isn't a function, it's just PHP array literal syntax. $x = array("a" => 100); // legal $y = my_func("a" => 100); // illegal
by postfuturist 16y ago
array() isn't a function, it's just PHP array literal syntax.
$x = array("a" => 100); // legal
$y = my_func("a" => 100); // illegal
- akavlie 16y agoYou're right, I was a bit hasty and didn't consider that. It sure does look like a function though, where other languages typically use {} or something similar.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoYeah, call_user_func('strlen', 'hello world') works but call_user_func('array', 'hello world') does not. But for ugly syntax, it's hard to beat the $ sigil being required everywhere for no reason at all (unlike Perl where it actually did something).
- sjs 16y ago$vars remind me of programming mIRC.