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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)
From: mike.vanriel@naenius.com (Mike van Riel)

On 05/31/2011 08:52 PM, Sean Coates wrote:
> I'm one of the people who've brought it up on Twitter. Today's discussion seems to have earned some traction, which is a step in the right direction, I believe.
>
>> I would prefer (as Rasmus pointed out) not to start a long discussion about it. Primarily I would be curious if anyone on the lists (from the RFC wiki page) below would like to change your vote or if you are not listed below and would like to be counted, that would be great too.
> At risk of turning this into a longer-than-necessary discussion, I believe a new RFC is required at this point. Making [ and ] work as (T_ARRAY, '(') and (')'), respectively is no longer good enough, for the main reason you've pointed out: JSON is becoming ubiquitous; actual first-class JSON would be very valuable to me.
>
> I would be happy to find some time to participate in RFC reform for this subject.
>
> That said:
+1