Re: [RFC] Additional splat operator usage

On 3 November 2014 22:45:11 GMT, Chris Wright <daverandom@php.net> wrote: >Good evening list, > >I'd like to open discussion a relatively simple and clear-cut RFC, >either >people will like it or they won't, there isn't a lot more to say here >than >what's in the RFC so please have a read. > >https://wiki.php.net/rfc/additional-splat-usage I like the concept with list-style arrays, but find the behaviour with regards associative arrays quite confusing. There's already a difference in behaviour between array_merge and + in this regard, and having a third way of writing the same thing isn't great - it would apparently be legal to write $foobar = [...$foo, ...$bar]; to simply merge two existing arrays. If anything, I think I would expect the keys of splatted arrays to be discarded, since it seems most natural to use this in a list context, but I can imagine always having to check in the manual. -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]