Posted by Justin Koivisto on 09/29/05 17:08

Larry Jaques wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:55:43 +0200, with neither quill nor qualm,
> Kirsten <K.Schulte@feuerwehr-meerbusch.de> quickly quoth:
>
>
>>Justin Koivisto schrieb:
>>
>>>Does anyone know what the name of the => operator in PHP is? It is
>>>something that is nearly impossible to search for, and I am not sure if
>>>it even has a name.
>>
>>I never seen a name for it.
>>...mmmmmh, but if there is no name, i think we should find one for it.
>
>
> Maybe that's why I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around classes.
> I don't know the operator sign's name. ;)

=> is an array operator... The indirection operator (->) is used for
classes...

> How about "egrets" from Equal GREater-Than Sign ?

Sounds like a bird to me... ;) Also you may not "regret" using it...

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