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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:22:40 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Compact Object Property Assignment
From: jakob@givoni.dk (Jakob Givoni)

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:26 AM Christian Schneider
<cschneid@cschneid.com> wrote:
> [] suggests an array but then is uses literals and = instead of 'strings'/$vars and => which looks wrong to my PHP eye.
That's ok, square brackets are usually related to arrays and what I
want is something similar to array literals.
The rest of the syntax is exactly the same as when you assign
properties on a object currently.

> you want to initialise so many properties manually instead of through some sort of constructor.
Yes, exactly. From the RFC:
"The purpose of this feature is to lighten the effort of populating
data structures, especially medium to large ones."

And as I say, since we don't have named parameters, this is a
pragmatic alternative.