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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:08:57 +0900
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Allow specifying keys in list()
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> It's been more than two weeks since I first proposed this RFC, and there's
>> no outstanding issues preventing moving towards a vote. There's not yet a
>> language specification patch, but that can be done later.
>>
>> So, I'm opening the vote on this RFC today, 2016-02-05, and it'll close the
>> Sunday after next, 2016-02-14. The vote requires a 2/3 majority as it's a
>> language change.
>>
>> The RFC page is here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_keys
>>
>> Happy voting!
>
> I voted yes as I like some use cases and the obvious syntax.

Same here.
It's simply pain to use numeric indexes. There are good use cases other
than named parameter like usage. This syntax decreases likelihood that
wrong values are assigned to variables by list(), which is good for code
reliability/security.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net