Re: Suggestion: Inconsistency: Allow array spread operator to work on string keys

Am 02.12.2020 um 18:24 schrieb Florian Stascheck <florian.stascheck@gmail.com>: > I suggest to allow string keys to also be used in array literals: > > $template = ['created_at' => time(), 'is_admin' => 1]; > $db_rows = [ > ['name' => 'Alice', 'email' => > 'alice@example.org', ....$template], > ['name' => 'Bob', 'email' => 'bob@example.org', > ...$template], > ]; You can already easily enough do this with $db_rows = [ ['name' => 'Alice', 'email' => 'alice@example.org'] + $template, ['name' => 'Bob', 'email' => 'bob@example.org'] + $template, ]; so I'm not sure if it is really needed. But then again I'm used to the +-operator for associative arrays and wouldn't expect to be able to use the spread operator instead. Someone learning PHP now might see things differently. Side-note: For the ...$template syntax I would assume that later values win (like ['foo' => "bar", 'foo' => "qux"] will result in ['foo' => "qux"]) so the exact equivalent for your example would probably be $template + ['name' => 'Alice', 'email' => 'alice@example.org'], but in reality one often wants to be able to override template values, that's why I wrote [ ... ] + $template and your example would be [...$template, 'name' => 'Alice', 'email' => 'alice@example.org'], - Chris