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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus)

On 05/31/2011 05:42 PM, dukeofgaming wrote:

> 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.

<?= has been decoupled from short tags in 5.4 and is always available.

-Rasmus