I really like the ...$param syntax. When we first created NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com http://www.noloh.com) back in 2005 we decided on $dotdotdot as a syntactic

I really like the ...$param syntax. When we first created NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com http://www.noloh.com) back in 2005 we decided on $dotdotdot as a syntactic salt, but this is obviously much nicer. Also, by ref ... is really really nice. Very few cases where it's necessary, but having that is a pretty big deal. Since PHP 5.3, PHP has gotten some really nice features, they've definitely been doing a pretty good job over the past few years.