Re: Shorthand proposal for associative arrays

Forgot something in the previous post... On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com > wrote: > Hi there, > I have a proposal for a shorthand notation of associative arrays borrowed > from another language: > :$foo > would be equivalent to > 'foo' => $foo > and would work with array, list or [] > > Motivation behind it, maybe someone else finds more good uses: > > 1) Emulating named parameters with associative arrays like > html::img([ 'src' => $src, 'alt' => $alt ]); > could be written as > html::img([ :$src, :$alt ]); > which encourages consistent naming of variables and parameters > The most similar extant feature to this is compact, but it's not as compact as this syntax. $src = 'my.jpg'; $alt = 'My alt'; html::img(compact($src, $alt)); will accomplish the same thing since compact does the reverse of extract - it pulls the specified variables from the local scope and puts them into an associative array.