Re: Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)

From: Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:35:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: RFC: Short syntax for Arrays (redux)
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Etienne Kneuss wrote:

> +1 for a short array syntax.

I'm still -1 on it. It makes absolutely unreadable code (yes, also in 
JavaScript with f.e. MongoDB).

> But only if you keep it consistent, PHP has always been using => for
> key/val association, I don't see any reason to suddenly provide "key":
> "val", unless what you want is to confuse people.

Yes, definitely "=>" vs. ":" in any case.

cheers,
Derick

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