Re: [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Compact Object Property Assignment

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:26 AM Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com> wrote: > [] suggests an array but then is uses literals and = instead of 'strings'/$vars and > => which looks wrong to my PHP eye. That's ok, square brackets are usually related to arrays and what I want is something similar to array literals. The rest of the syntax is exactly the same as when you assign properties on a object currently. > you want to initialise so many properties manually instead of through some sort of constructor. Yes, exactly. From the RFC: "The purpose of this feature is to lighten the effort of populating data structures, especially medium to large ones." And as I say, since we don't have named parameters, this is a pragmatic alternative.