Re: [RFC] Short Array Variable Shorthand

Am 29.09.2026 um 19:44 schrieb Weilin Du <weilin-du@qq.com>: > Today, I want to announce my second RFC to php 8.7 > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/array_shorthand > > This RFC brings a IMO useful syntactic sugar to array's > construction and destruction. I hope you'all find this > interesting! To be short: > > ``` > $point = [:$x, :$y, :$z]; // ['x' -> $x, 'y' -> $y, 'z' > -> $z] > [:$x, :$y, :$z] = $point; // reverse. > ``` We have been using a local patch for this short-hand syntax for many years and are very happy as for our coding style this comes up quite often. I prefer the original :$foo instead of =$foo even though there is a minor clash with the ternary operator but to be honest I would find [ $bool ? =$foo : =$bar] to return either an array with the key 'foo' or 'bar' not useful enough and would rather use $bool ? [:$foo] : [:$bar] So you have a +1 from me but I would strongly prefer : instead of =, - Chris