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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:42:52 -0500
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To: Dan Birken <birken@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)
From: dukeofgaming@gmail.com (dukeofgaming)

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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Dan Birken <birken@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> To be honest, ['a': 'b'] or ['a' => 'b'] is so much better than array('a'
> =>
> 'b') for general use I don't even care which one is picked, as long as one
> of them is picked.
>
> -Dan
>

+1 to that too. Even when I've never liked that much "=>" and would love to
see ":" make an entrance instead .

I'm afraid that if ":" is associated with the JSON interop argument and the
later is discarded then ":" will be discarded too, much like what happened
with the echo shortcut ("<?=") and the short tags ("<?"). Perhaps the idea
of JSON interop could be taken to another RFC and get less noise and better
ideas as a separate topic.

Regards,

David

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