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Request #48266 shorthand for array keryword
Submitted: 2009-05-13 19:57 UTC Modified: 2009-05-13 22:26 UTC
From: zyss at mail dot zp dot ua Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5.2.9 OS: Irrelevant
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-05-13 19:57 UTC] zyss at mail dot zp dot ua 
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One of the most frequently used keywords in PHP is "array".
It would be great to adopt just another construct from C/C++, namely array constructor using curly brackets { }.
These are cases when PHP code is oversaturated with "array" word.
In this way it would be much easier to write and read PHP code.

I am aware of case #3928 and http://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortsyntaxforarrays, but I think that curly brackets would be more suitable than square brackets.

Noone seems to complain of how C/C++ arrays are constructed.

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 [2009-05-13 22:26 UTC] johannes@php.net 
{} would create simpler lead to conflicts for the parser, but semantics will be discussed when this feature will be discussed the next time.
 
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