Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:52 AM, David Zülke <david.zuelke@bitextender.com> wrote: > Yes, I know. Then why are you and others demanding that the resulting syntax be fully > compatible with JSON so it could be parsed by other JSON parsers? That makes no sense at all. A file > with just ["foo"] in it won't be interpreted by PHP; you need at least <?php ?> > wrappers and a semicolon, and then you can't just throw it at another JSON parser anymore. I never demanded that anything resembling this. I simply stepped into this thread because of the encoding argument that ensued. > There is absolutely no use case for this, but some people on this thread seem to have some > weird dream where they can somehow share code between languages or whatever. Which they can't. > Unless they want to start stripping or padding stuff and generating code. > > I was pointing out the encoding issue under the assumption that it somehow *did* make sense, > e.g. that you'd have a JSON compatible declaration somewhere in a PHP file, extracted it with, > say, a regex, and handed it to PHP's own JSON parser, which might then struggle depending on > the encoding of the file. My impression was that people just wanted a JSON-like way to construct arrays and objects. Which does not require using a JSON parser, just the Zend parser. -Andrei