Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)

On 05/31/2011 11:52 AM, Sean Coates wrote: > I'm one of the people who've brought it up on Twitter. Today's discussion seems > to have earned some traction, which is a step in the right direction, I believe. > >> I would prefer (as Rasmus pointed out) not to start a long discussion about it. Primarily I >> would be curious if anyone on the lists (from the RFC wiki page) below would like to change your >> vote or if you are not listed below and would like to be counted, that would be great too. > > At risk of turning this into a longer-than-necessary discussion, I believe a new RFC is > required at this point. Making [ and ] work as (T_ARRAY, '(') and (')'), > respectively is no longer good enough, for the main reason you've pointed out: JSON is becoming > ubiquitous; actual first-class JSON would be very valuable to me. The tricky part with going all json is the syntax, specifically the {}'s But I think it is doable, mostly because this is not valid today: $a = true ? { 1 : 2 }; And in json if you have {}'s you have to have a ':' inside. I have always preferred to "borrow" a familiar syntax from other languages that the average PHP user is comfortable with instead of making up a new one. Stas, I didn't understand your point about eval() and security. What did you mean? -Rasmus