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To: Brian Moon <brian@moonspot.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)
From: philip@roshambo.org (Philip Olson)


A few notes worth mentioning:

- That RFC moved from fail to 'under discussion' a few weeks ago, =
although it hasn't been edited
- Most people are now for it, or at least that's the general feeling on =
IRC (#php.pecl) these past few weeks
- Discussing it is on the 5.4 TODO ( https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54 )

And since I voted against it last time around, here's my take (quoting =
myself here from the recent 5.4 thread):

"I'm changing my old vote, so -1 to +1. Changes and additions to syntax =
may (or may not) slow adoption, but since other such changes are being =
made then let's do it. And while explicit code (e.g., array()) is nice, =
many people are familiar with array shortcuts."

I think the main question is if related features (e.g., inline array =
slicing) should also be implemented. Once upon a time the $arr{} syntax =
almost did that.

Regards,
Philip