# RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/53065
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- Started by david.zuelke@bitextender.com on 2011-06-06T18:07:23+00:00
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## #53065 — david.zuelke@bitextender.com — 2011-06-06T18:07:23+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/53065#53065

> The desire is to be able to copy/paste things back and forth and make it work with only minor tweaks.

That sounds like a problem an IDE should solve, and not the language itself.

And again... there are potential encoding problems, plus single versus double quotes, trailing commas, and so forth.

David