Re: [RFC][VOTE] Deprecate curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets

> Le 3 juil. 2019 à 17:59, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> a écrit : > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:41 PM Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > >> Was any analysis of usage done for top open source projects? I support >> this direction, but would prefer to know its current impact before >> voting. >> > > I checked top 2k projects with a 2-3 months outdated data set. Here is the > analysis log: > https://gist.github.com/nikic/b5f811e0423bf051f4492cd6e0c0273e > > Overall there were ~2.2k individual uses of alternative array syntax. To > put that into context, there 888.3k total array accesses in the data set, > which puts usage at about 0.25%. Uses are usually clustered, i.e. if > alternative array syntax is used in a file, it will be used many times. > > Nikita It ought to be noted that the alternative syntax is used essentially for strings, not for arrays proper. In fact, I expect that it is used almost exclusively for strings. That means, most probably: ~2.2k uses of alternative syntax for direct byte access in strings among 888.3k for byte access in strings AND direct element access in arrays. —Claude