Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Change var_export() array syntax touse short hand arrays

[Sherif Ramadan]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:37 AM Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:

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It's different. Changing from long to short array syntax makes it
> unparsable by older versions of PHP.
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All versions of PHP which don't support short array syntax have long been
EOL for nearly 5 years now. We can't possibly be expected to account for
unsupported versions of PHP here.