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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:15:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Allow specifying keys in list()
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

S.A.N wrote on 12/02/2016 15:13:
> But is also necessary and the function or operator like
> object_assign($target, ...$sources)

Like I say, for that kind of purpose, I'd just use an array, which 
already has the facilities for working with arbitrary keys. But I know 
some people think $foo->bar "looks prettier" than $foo['bar'], and make 
big trees of stdClass objects, so maybe it's a matter of taste.