Would seem to me a more elegant solution would to just drop the idea of json 
interoperability and go with something that works for PHP. 

('a'=>'b', 0=>1234) perhaps?

On May 31, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

> Rasmus,
> 
> Don't you think having support for both ['a':1, 'b':2] and {'a':1,
> 'b':2} would create confusion?
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Rasmus <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote:
>> On 05/31/2011 11:52 AM, Sean Coates wrote:
>>> I'm one of the people who've brought it up on Twitter. Today's discussion 
>>> seems to have earned some traction, which is a step in the right direction, 
>>> I believe.
>>> 
>>>> I would prefer (as Rasmus pointed out) not to start a long discussion 
>>>> about it. Primarily I would be curious if anyone on the lists (from the 
>>>> RFC wiki page) below would like to change your vote or if you are not 
>>>> listed below and would like to be counted, that would be great too.
>>> 
>>> At risk of turning this into a longer-than-necessary discussion, I believe 
>>> a new RFC is required at this point. Making [ and ] work as (T_ARRAY, '(') 
>>> and (')'), respectively is no longer good enough, for the main reason 
>>> you've pointed out: JSON is becoming ubiquitous; actual first-class JSON 
>>> would be very valuable to me.
>> 
>> The tricky part with going all json is the syntax, specifically the {}'s
>> 
>> But I think it is doable, mostly because this is not valid today:
>> 
>>  $a = true ? { 1 : 2 };
>> 
>> And in json if you have {}'s you have to have a ':' inside.
>> 
>> I have always preferred to "borrow" a familiar syntax from other
>> languages that the average PHP user is comfortable with instead of
>> making up a new one.
>> 
>> Stas, I didn't understand your point about eval() and security. What did
>> you mean?
>> 
>> -Rasmus
>> 
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