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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Change var_export() array syntax to
 use short hand arrays
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Chase Peeler wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, is there any reason we couldn't add an optional 
> parameter called "$short_array" or whatever that defaults to false? 
> Then there shouldn't be any backwards compatibility issues.

And then you'd have to maintain two behaviours, and a flag, and their 
test files.

cheers,
Derick