Re: Proposal: Shorthand initialization and destructuring of associative arrays

> I have spare time this October, so I would happily get into php interpreter by developing this. Unfortunately my plans to have spare time FAILED and I'm not able to contribute in the near future. > If something like this were to be introduced, I'd happily see it happen with anonymous > objects and interfaces accepting properties: Using classes/interfaces rather than associative arrays is superior in 'enterprise' projects, but sometimes I just want to quickly return tuple or construct json response. > This way php could verify the return value with the return type, and static analyzers can > determine the structure of what's to be returned. Imo this functionality is not worth the > headache with arrays. We recently got #[ArrayShape]. Maybe associative arrays will get more love from static analyzers and will be suitable for 'tuple returns'.