Re: [VOTE] Bare Name Array Literal/Dereference

I try to be in the habit of explaining my -1s, so I'll explain them below. They're both reasons that came up in the earlier discussion thread. On 19 June 2014 16:44, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bare_name_array_literal#vote Johannes isolated an issue I kind of danced around in my own thinking here: http://news.php.net/php.internals/74694 — the difference in behaviour between a constant called FOO when you have [FOO: ''] versus [FOO => ''] is extremely unintuitive, and is going to burn users. Sadly, this probably means there isn't a sensible way to implement unquoted keys in PHP array declarations, no matter how you slice the syntax. Such is life. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bare_name_array_dereference#vote As I said earlier, I think the syntax here is visually confusing with object property/method access. If there was an obvious digraph that was completely distinct from -> and still somehow implied array member access I'd be more open to this, but I really can't think of one, and :> isn't it. Adam