[development] Time for a new chapter of an endless debate

[Jeremy Epstein]

On 7/3/06, Gordon Heydon <gordon at heydon.com.au> wrote:
> This is just the tip of the ice burg.
>
> It comes down to. What extra does it give us? Nothing!

Not nothing. As chx explained, it gives us consistency, as well as
bringing the handiness of arrays (e.g. all the useful array_*
functions) to more variables.

But now that I think about it, this is not nearly enough of a reason
to justify the amount of code that will get broken (IMHO).

Cheers,
Jaza.