Req #68178 [Opn]: JSON Native Support

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178&edit=1 ID: 68178 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: php at xkr dot es Summary: JSON Native Support Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: PHP Language Specification +Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: N/A PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Changing package; this isn't a spec bug as such. New features should be proposed as RFCs, generally speaking. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-10-08 15:00:50] cmbecker69 at gmx dot de Not long ago a similar solution has been proposed as RFC[1], but it was rejected. [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bare_name_array_literal> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-10-08 08:19:43] php at xkr dot es Thanks datibbaw, first heard about that, I've just seen it was introduced in PHP 5.4, it's a great approximation to the JSON structure, although is not compatible for the arrow, but at least it's cleaner. I hope anyway the consideration of a full support will be great. If you think it will not be an improvement, close the suggestion. Thanks again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-10-08 01:51:59] datibbaw@php.net You could also use short array syntax: $a = [['a' => 'b', 'c' => 'CONST', 'd' => null], ['e' => 1.23], ['f' => true]]; Two less characters and I had enough room to space everything out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-10-07 14:04:37] php at xkr dot es Shortly, yes. This is not to be considered as an "echo" or "print" alias discussion. In a broader term, JSON is the data structure most used by programmers in the web development, so I propose a convergence to this widely used data structure. There are a lot of this to do in PHP, and I conseder this is not the first one, but it will be fine if PHP programmers consider this for the future. Thanks for your comment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-10-07 13:52:09] inefedor at gmail dot com You propose to add another data-structure on the language level which will have the same semantics as arrays but another syntax or what? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178&edit=1