On Thursday 10 January 2008, Tomi Kaistila wrote:
> Well if confusing is the goal, then yes, since this is classic Perl.
>
> I started using PHP, instead of Perl, just so that I would not need play
> around with confusing syntax.
>
> Tomi Kaistila
> PHP Developer
The [] array literal syntax is also used by Javascript, and there's even an
object literal syntax, {}, which is quite nice. Does that mean "Javascript
is classic Perl"?
The [a:b, c:d] syntax would be more JSON-esque, while [a => b] syntax would be
more consistent with existing PHP. The latter, I think, would get better
traction with existing developers and be easier to understand (since it uses
the same separator character).
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