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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Shorthand proposal for associative arrays
From: david.proweb@gmail.com (David Rodrigues)

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Sorry. I mean "compact()" instead of extract() (it basically does the
oposite hehe), I confused everything in a hurry. Sorry.

So the real example is: html::img(compact('src', 'alt'));

2018-01-26 19:39 GMT-02:00 Michael Morris <tendoaki@gmail.com>:

> Forgot something in the previous post...
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Christian Schneider <
> cschneid@cschneid.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> > I have a proposal for a shorthand notation of associative arrays borrowed
> > from another language:
> >         :$foo
> > would be equivalent to
> >         'foo' => $foo
> > and would work with array, list or []
> >
> > Motivation behind it, maybe someone else finds more good uses:
> >
> > 1) Emulating named parameters with associative arrays like
> >         html::img([ 'src' => $src, 'alt' => $alt ]);
> >    could be written as
> >         html::img([ :$src, :$alt ]);
> >    which encourages consistent naming of variables and parameters
> >
>
> The most similar extant feature to this is compact, but it's not as compact
> as this syntax.
>
> $src = 'my.jpg';
> $alt = 'My alt';
> html::img(compact($src, $alt));
>
> will accomplish the same thing since compact does the reverse of extract -
> it pulls the specified variables from the local scope and puts them into an
> associative array.
>



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David Rodrigues

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