From:             icyliquid at gmail dot com
Operating system: All
PHP version:      5.2.6
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Shorthand array notation

Description:
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After a year of heavy Javascript coding, my return to PHP has been marked
with mixed feelings. One thing bothering me is (what seems to me to be) the
cumbersome array syntax of PHP.

Javascript has:

var arr = [ 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' ... ];

Obviously, PHP supports associative arrays and Javascript coders have to
resort their language's Object class for achieve that, so perhaps the JS
object syntax works better here:

var obj = { 'key':'value', 'otherkey':'otherval' ... };

I have found myself passing arrays to methods on an increasingly frequent
basis, and I think that a concise syntax like this would go a long way to
increasing readability.

What do you guys think?


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