Re: [RFC] Bare Name Array

From: Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:47:43 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Bare Name Array
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Good evening, > > I have created an RFC containing two proposals. > > The first is a less cumbersome syntax for arrays. At present, string > keys in arrays are declared like this: > > “stringKey” => 3, > > 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, We already voted no for this when discussing the short array syntax. See the vote under "Array short syntax" at https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54/vote cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine

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