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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:46:28 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)
From: dukeofgaming@gmail.com (dukeofgaming)

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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:36 PM, dukeofgaming <dukeofgaming@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm glad the topic has been picked up again, but I think there is an
> inconsistency in the proposal now that we are talking about being JSON-ish:
> JSON describes objects, not arrays. Then, what if "[]" were used for arrays
> and "{}" for objects?, so that:
>
> [1,2,3] //array(0=>1, 1=>2, 2=>3)
> ['one':1, 'two':2, 'three' : 3] // array('one'=>1, 'two'=>2, 'three' => 3)
> ['one':1, 'two':2, 'three' : 3] // (object)array('one'=>1, 'two'=>2,
> 'three' => 3)
>
>
Err, I meant:

{'one':1, 'two':2, 'three' : 3} // (object)array('one'=>1, 'two'=>2, 'three'
=> 3)

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