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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Object and Array Literals
From: sean@seancoates.com (Sean Coates)

>>  $foo =3D {
>>    'bar' : function(){
>>       echo 'baz';
>>    }
>>  };
>>=20
>>  $foo->bar();
>=20
> I guess it's not yet too late to surpass Perl in the front of =
obscurity...

Since the stuff to the right of the assignment operator (`:` in this =
case) is valid PHP, I don't see why this wouldn't be allowed if we adopt =
the {} syntax. It's not much different from this, which is currently =
valid:

$foo =3D (object)array(
  'bar' =3D> function () {
    echo 'baz';
  }
};

S