Re: [RFC] Bare Name Array

From: Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 18:13:29 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Bare Name Array
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Hi! > That’s a whole five characters, seven including spaces, for your most > common case (identifier-like key). In JavaScript, you can avoid > quoting the key for this common case. I propose something similar for > PHP. Where the key fits the profile of IS_STRING, this RFC proposes > that you can do this instead: > > stringKey: 3, You can already do stringKey => 3 :) And saving characters is not really a big priority. Changing language syntax and making millions of people to learn new syntax just to save a couple of chars does not look like a big win to me. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

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