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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Associative array syntax question?
From: jani.taskinen@sci.fi (Jani Taskinen)

troels knak-nielsen wrote:
> I just realised that his is valid PHP:
> 
> <?php
> var_dump(
>   array(
>     'foo' => 42,
>     'foo' => 53));
> 
> Producing the following output:
> array(1) {
>   ["foo"]=>
>   int(53)
> }
> 
> I can anticipate that there may be practical reasons for this
> "feature", but I can't think up any scenario, where it wouldn't be a
> programming error to statically declare an associative array with the
> same key multiple times. Is this a bug or a known quirk? Should I file
> a bug-report on it?

Expected behaviour.

--Jani