Re: [RFC] Bare Name Array

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2014, at 19:13, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > > > You can already do stringKey => 3 :) > > Yes, but then you’ll get: > Notice: Use of undefined constant stringKey - assumed 'stringKey' > in Command line code on line 1 > > > And saving characters is not really > > a big priority. > > Well, we already replaced array() with []. I think it is reasonable to > consider saving characters in other places. It’s not a *big* priority, no, > and we shouldn’t do it excessively, but if common cases are cumbersome, we > should try to deal with them. > > Array literals with string keys and dereferencing arrays with string keys > are extremely common in PHP. So I think this reduction would benefit most > users, especially those who deal with JSON and the like (which I do a lot > in my on code), as this makes declaring arrays to be serialised more > convenient. Also, foobar: just looks nicer than “foobar” =>, especially > when you have syntax highlighting. > > originally JSON(or what it ended up as JSON) didn't require the keys to be quoted, but it didn't took too long to bump into a reserved keyword and realize that it is better to require the keys to be quoted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs#3m30s -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu