Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)

First, why not go the opposite way and standardize the syntax - why not make object() or Object() work like array() or Array()? $person = object('name' => 'Justin',    'city' => 'ogden',    'state' => 'ut',    'country' => 'usa',    'favoriteNumbers' => array(4, 12, 37, 42),    'unluckyNumbers' => array(6, 13, 21),    'likesPhp' => 'very much so' ); Then you maintain consistency instead of relying on specific characters. That makes more sense than trying to make shorthand for something so basic to the language. I remember moving from Perl to PHP I remember thinking "what the hell? Everything is a $, how do you make hashes?" Secondly, "Second, we broke syntax highlighters, IDEs, and so forth when we introduced namespaces" Don't get me started on namespaces. :)