Re: [RFC] Bare Name Array

On 1 Jun 2014, at 19:47, Rafael Kassner <kassner@php.net> wrote: > This causes a huge backward incompatibility: > > define('KEY', 'foo'); > $data = array(KEY => 'bar'); > > Should $data have 'foo' or 'KEY' as element? AFAIK, some frameworks use > this constants in array keys. ‘foo’, I checked. Frameworks doing that should really not be, it’s really bad practise to rely on PHP’s fallback for non-existent constants, and that generates a Notice. Now you’d have the option of doing array(KEY: ‘bar’) though, which does not resolve the constant. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/